Naivete Quotes

Naivete Quote of the day

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

we know little of the things for which we pray

Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.

When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.

...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.

I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.

The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.