Top 100 Quotes About Naive
#1. There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
Gloria Steinem
#2. 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
#3. Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.
Ralph Marston
#4. I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
Charlie Weber
#5. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
Harold Bloom
#6. 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
#7. Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time ... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#8. Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
Joan D. Vinge
#9. Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?
John Hawkes
#11. We don't use the word 'intelligence' with software. We regard that as a naive idea. We say that it's 'complex.' Which means that we don't always understand what it's doing.
Orson Scott Card
#12. 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
#13. It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed - to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.
Kingsley Amis
#15. 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
#16. I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
Julia Stiles
#17. The naive lose it in dark woods,
but seek it under the street lamps.
Toba Beta
#18. American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#19. A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.
Holly LeCraw
#20. How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.
Bill Holm
#21. Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#22. On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
James Blunt
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Hope is often just a consoling thought, our naive disclaimer, retracting the possibility of a certain reality that we don't have the power to change.
Kavita Kane
#26. Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.
Gore Vidal
#27. I think you're wrong."
"Well I think you're naive," Hayley snapped.
"Maybe," Marley conceded, starting to walk away. "But I'd rather be that than a bully like you.
Kate Lattey
#28. Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.
W.C. Fields
#29. Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.
Oscar Arias
#30. When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.
Jeff Foxworthy
#31. The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#32. In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#33. The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
Evgeny Morozov
#34. Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
Lionel Shriver
#35. 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
#36. I don't think these men know that it's illegal,"she said. "They're very liberal and they have daughters and I think we should talk to them."The gruff-voiced woman barked back, "Don't be a naive little girl. People who have power don't like to give up that power.
Lynn Povich
#37. It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.
Neill Blomkamp
#38. High School. Society's bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.
Chris Colfer
#39. 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
#40. I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.
Kirstie Alley
#41. Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.
Criss Jami
#42. I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
Steven Spielberg
#43. Holding onto the naive belief that travel will open.
Patti Smith
#44. Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#45. If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
Jean Baudrillard
#46. It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Jonathan Carroll
#47. Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
#48. I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.
Moby
#49. The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get us nowhere.
Mary Midgley
#50. You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.
Lindsey Wixson
#51. You're blond, but surely you can't be so naive as to believe that."
"You're stressed," I countered, "but surely you know you're being an ass.
Sylvia Day
#52. But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.
Anais Nin
#53. I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.
Simon Sinek
#54. It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
John Lydon
#55. Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
Mark Skousen
#56. Normative mind tends to be naive.
Toba Beta
#57. Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#58. We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Neil Postman
#59. I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Tia Carrere
#60. We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
David Sheff
#61. Sometimes she wishes she could return to the naive happiness of their life. But mostly, she aches to go forward, to a place her body doesn't seem willing to take her.
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
#62. In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.
Katie Leung
#63. Either they're still naive, or stupid.
Toba Beta
#64. It's nice to play someone who is naive.
Emily Blunt
#65. I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
David Gest
#66. Schultes was a naive photographer. For him a beautiful image was one of something beautiful.
Wade Davis
#67. Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.
Dalai Lama
#68. Plans are for fools who are naive and selfish. No one can predict anyone's life, no matter how hard they might try. At the end of the day, everyone was gifted with something called free will.
Renee Ericson
#69. Hope was the light that allowed man to prevail in the worst of circumstances. But it also could become the narcotic of the self-deluded and the naive.
James Lee Burke
#70. She should not have taken any of these people at face value. She had been naive. But this conclusion, she realized, pointed unambiguously in the direction of cynicism. And she would not be a cynic. It was better to be naive, much better.
Alexander McCall Smith
#71. I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.
Renny Harlin
#72. 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
#73. They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.
Paulo Coelho
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity
Craig Mello
#78. Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.
Katie Alender
#79. How naive can you be before it becomes unforgivable?
Dennis Lehane
#80. So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.
Olaf Stapledon
#81. I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
Amy Adams
#82. The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.
Mary Blakely
#83. I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.
Eric Whitacre
#84. Maybe I was being naive. Even stupid. I mean, who would trade Standford for being homeless? [ ... ] But I had to know if I was meant to be a musician. Otherwise I'd spend the rest of my life regretting it. Asking myself ... what if?
Tara Kelly
#85. I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
Laurie Lee
#86. Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.
David Reeves
#87. Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.
Tom Robbins
#88. Let us never forget, tyrants have succeeded throughout history because good, naive people just stood by and did nothing.
Enrico Lamet
#89. Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
Robert McNamara
#91. 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
#92. It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
#93. 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
#94. I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.
Sia Furler
#95. It wasn't as if she was a silly, naive miss who knew nothing of the way of things
heaven knows, she had been to Boston!
Katie MacAlister
#96. What mattered is I was different. The naive girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. ~Livvie
C.J. Roberts
#97. 'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
Craig Shirley
#98. Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.
Alice McDermott
#99. All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
Michael Moore
#100. Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.
John Key
