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- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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