Naive Quotes - Page 6

• The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense, is freedom. Consciousness is far from intention. There is a certain enamoured contemplation of one's own naturalness or silliness which itself is unspeakably silly. Intention does not necessarily require a profound calculation or plan.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Beautiful, Silly, Essence

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• 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

  Character, Ethnicity, Shy

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• I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

  Sondre Lerche

  Song, Next Week, Different

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• I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

  Alanna Ubach

  Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Use, Physics

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• I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

  James Hansen

  Believe, Government, Trying

  "Ratcliffe coal trial: James Hansen gives court a crash course in climate change" by Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2010.

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• There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.

  Derek R. Audette

  Wings, Evil, Political

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• I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.

  Katarina Witt

  Flower, One Day, World

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• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  Alexander Haig

  Iran, Paris, Giving

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• These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

  Catherine Keener

  Thinking, People, Want

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• What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

  Etgar Keret

  Army, Thinking, People

  "Life at a louder volume". Interview With Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

  Ellie Kemper

  Thinking, Prejudice, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, School, Church

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

  Lisa Unger

  Envy, Seems

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.26, Crown

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• If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!

  Richard Dawkins

  Jobs, Offering, Engineering

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice.  Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision.  And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith.  You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.

  Jim Wallis

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.

  Ilana Mercer

  Nice, Men, Branches

  "Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof". www.wnd.com. January 3, 2014.

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• To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Dream, Ideas, Risk

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.

  Jim Rohn

  Men, Thinking, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 16, 2016

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• 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

  Children, Eye, Looks

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• I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

  A. A. Gill

  Dirty, Bankers, Negative

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• When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity -
  what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented
  horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores,
  the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

  William S. Burroughs

  Christian, War, Charity

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Believe, Love You

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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