Naive Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Use, Authenticity, Drink

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• Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.

  Donald Worster

  Dream, Design, Cost

  Donald Worster (1992). “Under western skies: nature and history in the American West”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Love, Life, Family

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• It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

  Steven Pinker

  Science, Thinking, Humanity

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• When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Thinking, Squares

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• 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

  Christian, Humble, Thoughtful

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• What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.

  Cesar Milstein

  Ignorance, Science, Simple

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• 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

  Optimistic, Feet, Long

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.479, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done.

  John Peterman

  Dumb, Done, Littles

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• I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Tone, Consistent

  "Not Quite Human: Michel Gondry Makes The Leap To Features With 'Human Nature'". Interview with Guy V. Cimbalo, www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2002.

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• Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.

  William McIlvanney

  Honesty, Dark, Law

  William McIlvanney (2013). “Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)”, p.157, Canongate Books

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• Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

  Clement Greenberg

  Light, Different, Levels

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Evil, Black

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• I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Depressing, Gone, Fiction

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.14, Milkweed Editions

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• Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

  Pope Francis

  Economic Inequality, Justice, People

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

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• While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Success, Men, Tsa

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• So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Drama, Rocks, Zest

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.364, Courier Corporation

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• If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

  Rafael Benitez

  Riding, Littles, Red

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• I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Kids

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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

  Acting, Firsts, Busy

  "Song: "Very Ape" ("In Utero")". September 21, 1993.

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• 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

  Girl, Struggle, Fighting

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Kids, Happy Life

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

  Ellen Page

  Gay, Actors, Facts

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

  Mason Cooley

  Disappointment, Literature, Cynicism

  "City Aphorisms". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Expectations, Littles

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