Naivete Quotes

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

To believe that Iran has genuinely abandoned its longstanding ambition to become a nuclear power requires an almost willful ignorance of its history or an utterly breathtaking level of naivete on the part of those entrusted to monitor nuclear proliferation. - John Kyl

This 'nutritional naivete' will continue to offset much of the positive outreach being done to combat obesity and other diseases in the U.S.. Consumers need better tools to make intelligent decisions. The data show a glaring lack of understanding of the basics of nutrition and help make it easy to see why the right messages aren't getting through. Ongoing changes in food labeling and better access to diet and nutritional information will help get to the root of this problem. - Steve Bodhaine

So while Conservatives may think that youth, inexperience, and naivete are the answer to their problems; I say they are not the answer to the country's problems. - Sir Menzies Campbell

She was always this country girl, with an almost impenetrable naivete. - Mary Harron

Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and guitars seem very idealistic when you're twenty. - Tony James

One may appear naive or illogical but it's not naivete or being illogical. It arises from one's faith. - Anita David

Once again this expresses Al Qaeda's complete naivete about the real impact of their actions. - Michael O'Hanlon

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. - Eric Hoffer