Top 232 Naive Quotes

For a while there I wasn’t sure that anybody cared about being the best at anything, and it’s nice to have a group of guys that feel like we’re doing it for the cause. Maybe we’re just really young and naive for thinking music can matter, but it does to us.

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.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Big Brother’ has put me off people. I thought, ‘I’m gonna get a dog.’ I really think I’m going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ’em both a little bit naive.

You don’t grow up naive in Africa.

Under popular culture’s obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

I’m passionate about what I do. I’d be naive to be passive.

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

I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, ‘Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.’

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

I’m not big on women looking naive.

If you’re an advocate of gentleness, you’re simplistic and naive. If you’re an advocate of despair and hate, you’re sophisticated.

Working for CNN, you help set the agenda for decision makers and industry leaders simply by doing your job. What the network covers and how we cover it affects people. I am not naive enough to believe I work in some ‘pure’ news vacuum.

I’m not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It’s something that people don’t necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

I’m not naive.

I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there’s something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.

I didn’t have an acting job when I moved to L.A. I was just naive enough to think that moving to L.A. was the next step after college. My parents were really supportive.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

I’m incredibly hopeful – in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of naivete has sort of gotten me in trouble at times, but I haven’t stopped myself from doing things.

There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.

You’d be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

Some people have a concept of design: that it should be without the maker. I have been educated in this way, the traditional way. But I am not naive. I know that we make my things, and that people want them. I am signing them – and I am winking at them.

At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London’s West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

What you don’t get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there’s people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you’re going to be.

If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have security. But Hef thinks I’m naive. He feels I’m vulnerable to kidnapping.

Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that ‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.’

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me – as well as Alex and Neil – as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it’s dangerous.

Maybe it’s because I’m a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren’t really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.

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

I wasn’t naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked me during what I thought were informational interviews about jobs, I was shocked. I didn’t see it coming, and the worst thing about it was the shame I felt, as if I’d done something wrong.

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

That’s the thing, when you play younger characters they’re always less casual. You’re hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.

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.

I’m not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.

We would rent this old van and drive anywhere we could get in 10-to-12 hours. We scraped by with little money, but there’s a lot to be said for those days. We were naive, but there was no pressure and a lot of freedom.

I think when you’re 10 years old, it’s too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

When I came into the film industry, I was so naive and confused and had no idea about how a heroine should work.

To pretend that former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party will act in good faith to preserve democracy is naive.

I was so naive I didn’t even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

The strange proposition that black intellectuals – regardless of their training – are ‘race experts’ mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.

It’s funny: ‘Next Thing’ was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

I am not naive or stupid enough to imagine that people are just going to look at my face and vote for me.

Sometimes it’s good to be naive.

I’m pretty gloriously positive and naive in a way.

When I debuted at NXT, I was naive, and look where it got me. I was overlooked and underestimated.

I think I’m a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

You would be naive to suggest that politics isn’t complicated or isn’t a game, but you don’t create change through cynicism.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is ‘naive’ spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of ‘bonsai.’

I was naive. Before ‘Larrikins,’ I thought passion, hard work, and a skill set will mean that anything you want to do will get done. I don’t think that anymore.

I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.

I grew up in Indiana. I’m a late bloomer, very naive.

I was too naive when I started out. It was hard to understand the workings of the industry. But rejection and ridicule pushed me to discover my individuality. I wanted success on my terms.