Naivete Quotes

23 Naivete quotes by 23 unique authors

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer
Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always unpredictable. All of the balance… — Hideki Yukawa
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. — Jock Sturges
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ... — Kary Mullis
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled… — Julian Jaynes
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,… — Andy Warhol
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take… — Thomas Merton
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron de Montesquieu
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. — Jeffrey Combs
Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete. — Fran Lebowitz
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or… — Henri Matisse
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I… — Michelle Pfeiffer
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an… — Mitt Romney
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means… — Charles Baudelaire
There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a… — Glen Cook
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one… — Robert Hughes
I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever,… — Thomas Mallon
Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and guitars seem very idealistic when you're twenty. — Unknown Author
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a mature… — Ian Williams

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