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I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. -- Kurt Cobain
Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money. -- Ludwig von Mises
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed. -- Hedwig Dohm
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
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. -- Stanley Crouch
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. -- Anatole France
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. -- Ogden Nash
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. -- James Thurber
Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things. -- Steve Brown
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. -- Thomas Szasz
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. -- Dave Eggers
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
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it. -- Amy Sedaris
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
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
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
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. -- Claude Chabrol
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. -- Tobey Maguire
When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one. -- Tony Fernandes
My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is. -- Thom Yorke
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
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
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant. -- River Phoenix
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. -- Anais Nin
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
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. -- Reince Priebus
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
It's nice to play someone who is naive. -- Emily Blunt
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
I'm incredibly naive. -- Christina Ricci
A naive dream is extremely powerful. -- Yossi Ghinsberg
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. -- Mason Cooley
I'm not big on women looking naive. -- Alexander McQueen
Too often people view idealists as naive. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. -- John Ralston Saul
Every true genius is bound to be naive. -- Friedrich Schiller
I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous. -- Ann Landers
From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. -- Albert Schweitzer
I was so naive when I began acting, professionally. -- Alanna Ubach
Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity -- Craig Mello
Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. -- Milan Kundera
When you are young, you are a little naive. -- Maria Sharapova
The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her. -- Lisa Unger
I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships. -- Nicholas Braun
Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana. -- Shalom Auslander
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! -- Robert Indiana
Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership. -- Ralph Marston
The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive. -- Scott Belsky
If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation. -- Marianne Williamson
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job. -- Ben Kingsley
I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive. -- Arija Bareikis
If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood. -- Rafael Benitez
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. -- Paul Mooney
I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along. -- Elizabeth Lesser
I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor. -- Ellen Page
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. -- Joichi Ito
She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season. -- Shiri Appleby
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive. -- Brit Marling
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. -- Joan D. Vinge
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money. -- Ludwig von Mises
After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think? -- Andy Warhol
Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age. -- Rene Russo
I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. -- Simon Sinek
Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on. -- Laura Schlessinger
A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid. -- Adolf Hitler
I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose. -- Sandy Duncan
When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice. -- Kim Wilde
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams. -- Howard Schultz
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. -- Claude Debussy
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve; he made 'em both a little bit naive. -- Yip Harburg
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted. -- Daniel Kahneman
I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody. -- Rush Limbaugh
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive. -- Ogden Nash
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive. -- Leo Buscaglia
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. -- David Hilbert
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent. -- Julia Stiles
In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. -- Maria Semple
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive. -- E. Y. Harburg
I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music. -- Sia Furler
I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody. -- Rush Limbaugh
Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do. -- Alan Cohen
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. -- Steven Pinker
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it. -- Bill Joy
Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know. -- Dale Murphy
I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth. -- Roy Keane
The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening. -- Clarissa Ward
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -- Johnny Carson
But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then? -- Dan Ariely
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. -- Neil Young
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. -- Hans Christian Andersen
I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived! -- Shirley Manson
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous -- George Allen
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. -- Saul Bellow
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. -- Leon Uris
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. -- George Allen
When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done. -- John Peterman
I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. -- Joe Namath
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. -- Thomas Szasz
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. -- Gloria Steinem
It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. -- Zadie Smith
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one. -- Steven Pinker
Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it. -- Oscar Arias
We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know. -- David Sheff
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. -- Moby
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic. -- Guy Delisle
I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances. -- Anne Michaels
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. -- Harold Prince
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. -- Imre Lakatos
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. -- Frank X. Barron
Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet. -- Dwight Yoakam
Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear. -- Tom Robbins
It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be. -- Juno Temple
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say. -- James Hansen
I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit -- Duncan Sheik

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