Top 74 I Am Naive Quotes
#1. I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.
Sonam Kapoor
#2. I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
Dan Shechtman
#3. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
Harold Bloom
#4. Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.
Dale Murphy
#5. I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!
Shirley Manson
#6. He smiled, a real one this time, though his voice remained teasing. "So, what do you think I am?" Naive, I thought at once. Naive, brave, selfless, incredible and much too kind to survive this world. It'll break you in the end, if you keep going like this. Good things never last.
Julie Kagawa
#7. A naive girl like you should stay in the light and out of the dark.
Tachibana Higuchi
#8. A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.
Gerhard Richter
#9. Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any possible bearing on the outcome whatsoever.
Iain Banks
#10. A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.
Adolf Hitler
#11. Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive
Eric Hobsbawm
#12. Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard Feynman
#13. Science seems to be at war with itself ... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
Bertrand Russell
#14. I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.
Arija Bareikis
#15. I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.
Crystal Woods
#16. When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk to our enemies. I think those are exactly the people you have to talk to and you have to negotiate with.
Bernie Sanders
#17. I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.
Ed Harris
#19. But how can psychotherapists purport to dispel the illusions of their clients while protecting and maintaining their own? Furthermore, a therapist's belief in and commitment to the therapeutic process ought not to be based on naive idealism, but rather on realistic appraisal.
Michael Sussman
#21. I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships.
Nicholas Braun
#22. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain
#23. When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...", how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive.
Ruth A. Hawkins
#24. When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.
Luc Tuymans
#25. I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.
Lauren Lapkus
#26. When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
Brian K. Vaughan
#27. I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
Roy Keane
#28. With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
Joyce Giraud
#29. If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
Edsger Dijkstra
#31. You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
Jon Bon Jovi
#32. If others think I am nuts, naive, gullible, and not living in the real world, that's all right, too... I'll gladly stay in what some have called my fictitious world, my happy and peaceful world, a world full of signs of hope.
Ward Foley
#34. Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.
Bram Cohen
#35. Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
Pope Francis
#36. I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#37. Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
George Steiner
#39. Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.
Paulo Coelho
#40. Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
Carol Leifer
#42. The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.
Vint Cerf
#43. [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
Arthur Koestler
#44. The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.
Marc Forster
#45. While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.
Kyrsten Sinema
#46. When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.
Alex Pettyfer
#47. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.
Edward Weston
#48. I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.
Anurag Kashyap
#49. You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.
Tim O'Brien
#50. Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.
Alan Cohen
#51. I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs
#52. I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
Michael J. Saylor
#53. I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#54. I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#55. The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
Frank X. Barron
#56. But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.
R.A. MacAvoy
#57. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#58. America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.
Christopher Morley
#59. So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places. Besides, I'm trying to tell you the truth of a woman like me.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#60. That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
Ben Barnes
#61. I'm young, and maybe I'm naive, and he's dark, and maybe he's a bit dangerous.
J.M. Darhower
#63. I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
David Puttnam
#64. Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.
Norman Finkelstein
#65. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here.
The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.
Neal Stephenson
#66. There is still something naive and boyish about him,
No One
#67. After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.
Bruno Bauer
#68. Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.
Max Brooks
#69. Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.
Nahiyan Bin Asadullah
#70. Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
Alan Ball
#71. I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
Harold Prince
#72. What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.
Tom Riley
#73. There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.
Jonathan Ive
#74. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.
Karl E. Weick
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