Naive Quotes

345 Naive quotes by 319 unique authors

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. — Michael Moore
I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. — Joe Namath
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or… — Anais Nin
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich… — River Phoenix
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live. — Godfrey Reggio
I'm incredibly naive. — Christina Ricci
Every true genius is bound to be naive. — Friedrich Schiller
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams. — Howard Schultz
When you are young, you are a little naive. — Maria Sharapova
Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who… — Mark Skousen
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born… — Steven Spielberg
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. — Thomas Szasz
A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths… — Adora Svitak
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. — James Thurber
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to… — Daniel H. Wilson
My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound… — Thom Yorke
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. — Neil Young
...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like… — Kim Edwards
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. — Douglas Adams
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to… — Ralph Ellison

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