Naive Quotes

You told me you'd never make me cry. Now I'm slipping on the tears you've made me cry. Why does it come as a surprise? To think I was so naive. Maybe it didn't mean so much to you, but it meant the world to me. - Trent Reznor

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. - Henri Matisse

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. - Claude Chabrol

You learn something every day, and I don't know if I'll ever stop learning, but you do get to a point where not many things surprise you. Buck has taught myself, and the whole staff, a tremendous amount. Early on, I was kind of naive to what it takes [to manage], and now I really understand the big picture. - Orel Hershiser

You do not come back from those depths just by making some shifts here and there and cherry-picking a few issues you think are popular. It just isn't that easy. The notion that you can just snap your fingers after falling from the high 60s to the low 30s, that you can give a speech, propose some infrastructure spending and say some things that you think pull you back to the center is naive in the extreme. - Garry South

You can't impose your political feelings on your children... I thought about it, but I didn't think about it very torturously or hard. I'm 63 years old, and I'm not naive enough to think that my staying in Vermont would have any influence on the first lady or her husband. - John Irving

Yes we can always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls. - Craig Shirley

Yeah, it has been a sacrifice, ... I may be totally naive here. But in my heart of hearts, I really believe this book will see some measure of success. - Jim Sullivan

Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable. - Michelle Shocked

Xavier, bless his heart, was so naive. Going out there so confident to kick that field goal, wanting that opportunity, and then missing it -- that's got to shatter you, just shatter you. - Bobby Bowden