Quotes of Ingenuous - somelinesforyou

“ The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism - has a claim to the highest consideration. ”

- Ernst Mach

“ Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Going through my mind? Don't screw up, don't screw up Frank's birthday. ”

- Tom Selleck

“ It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either. ”

- John Lydon Rotten

“ All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ”

- Humphry Davy

“ From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Fame is proof that the people are gullible. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. ”

- William Hale White

“ It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ 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. ”

- Mikhail Gorbachev

“ The law is reason unaffected by desire. ”

- Aristotle

“ I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first. ”

- Kurt Cobain

“ The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. ”

- Maya Lin

“ I was supposed to be gutted but that's all nonsense. I'm happy as I am. I'm single and not looking for anything. I have a great collection of mates I can talk to. ”

- Keira Knightley

“ I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. ”

- Neil Young

“ The childlike physicality of laughter exercises is restorative for adults. ”

- Steve Wilson

“ My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. ”

- Angie Dickinson

“ I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive. ”

- Janeane Garofalo

“ I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible. ”

- Lana Turner

“ I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. ”

- Johnathan Frakes

“ 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. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ Steve Jobs has always had a bit of Buzz Lightyear in him: comically self-confident, ingenuously overbearing and overendowed with charisma. ”

- Katie Hafner

“ It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. ”

- Anatole France

“ We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. ”

- Gerald Brenan

“ Every true genius is bound to be naive. ”

- J.C.F. von Schiller

“ Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart. ”

- Mencius
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