Quotes of Naive - somelinesforyou

“ He's armed without that's innocent within. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ”

- Ogden Nash

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

- Ben Kingsley

“ Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs. ”

- Euripides

“ Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. ”

- Oliver North

“ Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. ”

- Grenville Kleiser

“ We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. ”

- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“ A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. ”

- James Baldwin

“ Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting them not to. ”

- Unknown

“ An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. ”

- Andrew Lang

“ Love keeps on expecting the best! because love keeps on trusting God even when the right choices you make don't turn out the way you want them too! Submitted by Victoria. ”

- Unknown

“ I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. ”

- Kirsten Dunst

“ Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? ”

- Karl Shapiro

“ I'm innocent. I was raped! I hope you get raped! Scumbags of America! ”

- Aileen Wuornos

“ Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. ”

- Hugo Black

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

- Lana Turner

“ I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. ”

- Johnny Carson

“ 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. ”

- Richard Feynman

“ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ Dare to be naive. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ 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

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

- Anatole France

“ It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. ”

- James Thurber

“ In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed unwittingly, the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing? ”

- David Mamet
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