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Quote Left We must abandon completely the naive faith that school automatically liberates the mind and serves the cause of human progress; in fact, we kn... Quote Right
Quote Left I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. Quote Right
Quote Left The general thrust these days is: Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, it didn't work, everyone knows what the Americans are like, but stop being naive, this is the world, there's nothing to be done about it and anyway fuck it, who cares? But let me put it this way-the dead are still looking at us, waiting for us to acknowledge our part in their murder. Quote Right
Quote Left I'm not naive. I realise that quality of life and income are inextricably bound together, but sooner or later we're going to have to ask ourselves whether it is possible to make life more meaningful without charging it to Visa. Quote Right
Quote Left If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. Quote Right
Quote Left I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff...I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound. Quote Right
Quote Left We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference. Quote Right
Quote Left Who wants always to look at a cafe or an altar or an oak tree with the first innocence and the limited understanding of a naive lovesick girl,... Quote Right
Quote Left He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. Quote Right
Quote Left A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality. Quote Right
Quote Left If you think that any human system of justice is infallible, then you are ignorant. If you think that no person has been falsely condemned to death, then you are naive. If you think that even one innocent person, ripped from heir life and their passion and to put to death at the hands of the state is in any way justifiable, then you are evil. Quote Right
Quote Left Dare to be naive. Quote Right
Quote Left The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. . . Quote Right
Quote Left Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. Quote Right
Quote Left The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget. Quote Right
Quote Left I did feel a little bit of guilt for what happened, but I didn't ask for that. I am not a criminal, even though when I stepped out of this room yesterday, I felt like one. But all I ask is for my life to be normal again -- but I'm not naive and stupid and think this is going to happen in the next few days. Quote Right
Quote Left Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. Quote Right
Quote Left It would be inappropriate for me to assume they still have weapons of mass destruction, but at the same time, it would be naive to exclude that possibility, Quote Right
Quote Left The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Quote Right
Quote Left It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. Quote Right
Quote Left It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the p... Quote Right
Quote Left Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Naive

Quote Left Naivete begets idealism and idealism nurtures naivete. Quote Right
Quote Left I sense imminent danger even before they tickle my naiveness with sweet cunning. I avoid being friendly with any stranger I meet by weighting out the consequences. Quote Right
Quote Left Acknowledging complexity of the problems we face should make us humble rather than naive, coward, or self-centered. Quote Right
Quote Left When I was naive and thought the justice system was really about justice and bringing the bad guy down, I thought prison was a place of rehabilitation. Quote Right

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