Naive Quotes

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

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

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• Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

  Steven Pinker

  Humanity, Overcoming, Calling

  "Time Magazine's 'Evolution Wars' Features Albert Mohler". www.christianpost.com. August 10, 2005.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Inspire

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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• 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

  Women, Taken, Thinking

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

  Gerald Brenan

  Quality, Bad Qualities, Ridiculous

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• 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

  Thinking

  "Where is Russell's paradox?" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. May 22, 1985.

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• Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

  Jim Rohn

  Liars, Lying, Leader

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 12, 2016

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

  Anatole France

  Heart, Knowledge, Mind

  "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.

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• Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

  Charlie Pierce

  Optimistic, Optimism, Despair

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• Every true genius is bound to be naive.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Intelligence, Genius, Literature

  "Schiller's Poems‎". Book by Friedrich Schiller, p. 200, 1905.

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• I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Intellectual, Poverty, Conviction

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

  Oscar Arias

  Dream, Peace, Hard Work

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• I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Glimpse, Levels

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• We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

  Steven Pinker

  Perfect, World, A Perfect World

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• A naive dream is extremely powerful.

  Yossi Ghinsberg

  Dream, Powerful

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• This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

  Laini Taylor

  Loneliness, Lying, Heartache

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

  Scott Belsky

  Risk, Ambitious, Common

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• Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, World, Youth

  "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 2005.

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• I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an adopted family where my mom is Christian and Caucasian, my dad is Jewish, my sister is Mexican and I don't know, I don't tan so well. I think I'm mostly Irish.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Christian, Mom, Dad

  Source: latinalista.com

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• We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

  Neil Postman

  Believe, Age, Middle

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

  Larry Niven

  Giving Up, Looks, Constant

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• Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

  David Hilbert

  Discipline, Three, Development

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• I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

  Ann Landers

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• I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

  Moby

  Art, Art Is, Shows

  "One last thing". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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