Not Naive Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. I'm not naive. I know I don't get the happily ever after. My knight in shining armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole ...

Teresa Mummert

#5. Your have a purity I've lost, pet. But in some ways, the important ones, you're not naive. You understand the darkness without ever having been in it.

Joey W. Hill

#6. It's not naive to trust your family.'
'I promise you, it is,' said Laurent. 'But I wonder, is it less naive than the moments when I find myself trusting a stranger, my barbarian enemy, whom I do not treat gently.

C.S. Pacat

#7. Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

Chinua Achebe

#8. 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

#9. When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Luc Tuymans

#10. Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Tom Robbins

#11. I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.

Daniel Woodrell

#12. Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.

Ken MacLeod

#13. I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

Ellen Page

#14. These women are talented and gifted, fearless yet honoring, connected yet self-contained, present yet far reaching, compassionate yet fierce, pure but not naive, strong and gentle, simple yet highly strategic.

Lisa Bevere

#15. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.

Sharon Brous

#16. Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

Ralph Marston

#17. I mean, I'm not naive enough to imagine that anyone can be satisfied indefinitely by memories, especially if he's young and full of life, like you. I did my best to help you build up a reserve to keep going on.

Christopher Isherwood

#18. I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

Roy Keane

#19. I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

Kurt Cobain

#20. He's so ... innocent. Nut in a good way. not naive, just innocent, like he still believes there's good in the world. That's addictive. And very, very dangerous.

C.M. Stunich

#21. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Chris Kyle

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

Alan Cohen

#26. 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

#27. Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Ball

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive

Eric Hobsbawm

#34. 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

#35. Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#36. 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

#37. I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of everything. Maybe thats the advantage we have."
"Yeah our bad attitudes versus their swords and axes and giant wolves," Christopher said darkly.

Katherine Applegate

#38. Do not be naive. Criminals cannot go unpunished. Nor can heroes.

Devin Grayson

#39. On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Feist

#40. This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.

Leo Tolstoy

#41. 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

#42. Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.

Richard Reeves

#43. I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks.
All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Abraham Maslow

#44. 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 you have a problem.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#45. I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

J.K. Rowling

#46. I might be sexually naive, but I wasn't utterly stupid. Or not anymore. That was an I want some sexy time look.

Donna Augustine

#47. Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

#48. A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

Anton Chekhov

#49. Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#50. 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

#51. What went wrong? Well, comrades, when the American investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, it was not just a bank going broke, it was a political ideology going bankrupt. The failure of market liberalism. It ended decades of naive, uncritical faith in the market looking after itself. It does not!

Asne Seierstad

#52. My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

Brian Lamb

#53. You cannot play naive if you're not.

Ida Lupino

#54. I'm not big on women looking naive.

Alexander McQueen

#55. If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.

Thomas Berry

#56. Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

Laura Schlessinger

#57. One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

Julius Erving

#58. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#59. It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

Juno Temple

#60. We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Gerald Brenan

#61. You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-up, independent professional. Not to see what you want to see, but what you must see. Otherwise you'll carry around that baggage for the rest of your life.

Haruki Murakami

#62. It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Anatole France

#63. I pat her on the head. "Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake.

Jenny Han

#64. There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.

Peter Agre

#65. 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

#66. We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ... sophisticated.'

Paul Provenza

#67. for a second i wonder if you are really that naive. if you really believe fate works like that. as if it lives in the sky staring down at us. as if it has five fingers and spends its time placing us like pieces of chess. as if it is not the choices we make.

Rupi Kaur

#68. My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Anna Faris

#69. Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Marianne Williamson

#70. It's not fair! (Ryssa)
Because life was ever about fairness.
Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#71. I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

Herman Daly

#72. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

#73. We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Robertson Davies

#74. I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence.

Richard Brautigan

#75. Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

Oscar Arias

#76. I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

Jack Gleeson

#77. I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.

Rachel Kushner

#78. I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can change. Producing and acting upon their own ideas - not consuming those of others.

Paulo Freire

#79. We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Kate Millett

#80. But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

Geddy Lee

#81. You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,
Let not our naive labours have been in vain!

Derek Mahon

#82. Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

Craig Venter

#83. The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

William S. Burroughs

#84. Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

Xavier Niel

#85. Gospel hope keeps us from being muted by being either a naive Pollyanna or a despairing Cassandra. Voices of warning are meant to be heard, not just raised.

Neal A. Maxwell

#86. A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

Ashton Kutcher

#87. Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Travis Bradberry

#88. I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

Anne Michaels

#89. I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.

George Harrison

#90. The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them
but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#91. Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

Lee Konitz

#92. When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

Moby

#93. Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

Marianne Williamson

#94. I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

Rabih Alameddine

#95. I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've learned not to be so naive and trusting. Today I question everything and listen to my instincts ...

Deborra-Lee Furness

#96. You're naive. We're destroyers, not saviors.
-Kanda Yuu

Katsura Hoshino

#97. For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.

Mark Kirk

#98. 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, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#99. You're an idiot,' said Mum, when I relayed to her the entire situation on Wednesday. 'Not an unintelligent idiot, but a sort of naive idiot who manages to fall into a difficult situation and then can't get out out of it because she's too awkward.

Alice Oseman

#100. Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

Wallace Shawn