Ingenuousness Quotes

#1. Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. He was at that period of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.

Victor Hugo

#4. Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere

T-anne Constable

#6. To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

Confucius

#7. [I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#8. My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

Mason Cooley

#9. I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

John Calvin

#10. America was becoming the world's best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.

Norman Spinrad

#11. The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have ... excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

Anais Nin

#12. When one historical period is replaced by another, there is
always a group of people left over from the old society

Henning Mankell

#13. In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

Channing Tatum

#14. When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up ... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

Carole Katchen

#15. Things only have as much power as you give them

Nicky Hope

#16. And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

Robin Weigert

#18. Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

Curtis Joseph

#19. Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.

Carol Edgarian

#20. Sometimes a man can be a lot like a farm. He lets his heart lay fallow for a while, and instead of his feelings dying out, they just go dormant, his emotions growing deeper and stronger as time passes. A person only needs to clear away the weeds on the surface to uncover them.

Linda Kage

#21. How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

Milan Kundera