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Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust, — Lee Strobel

The idea that being scientific simply means being irreligious is a particularly naive one. It has caused a lot of confusion and will get us nowhere. — Mary Midgley

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago. — Olaf Stapledon

I just want to keep you safe.
I smile. Americans can be so naive. — Kristin Hannah

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic. — Guy Delisle

Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed. — Hedwig Dohm

Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist. — Abhijit Naskar

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. — Claude Debussy

A naive girl like you should stay in the light and out of the dark. — Tachibana Higuchi

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love. — Anthony Liccione

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it. — Bill Joy

Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous. — Tom Robbins

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Too often people view idealists as naive. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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. — Jonathan Frakes

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally. — Alanna Ubach

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there. — Dan Shechtman

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV. — Kathy Reichs

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. — Arthur Koestler

You cannot play naive if you're not. — Ida Lupino

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace

It seems easier to respond to our enthusiasms by trading in facts than by investigating the more naive question of how and why we have been moved — Alain De Botton

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having. — Marty Rubin

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything. — Neil Postman

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

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle. — W.C. Fields

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way. — Dick Cavett

Haris...as a naive migrant
who just moved here,
relying on you tapered worries. — Tammy Sulit

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us. — Stanislaw Lem

The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing; — Friedrich Nietzsche

20 See the naive characterization of Backe in J. K. Galbraith, 'Germany was Badly Run', Fortune (December 1945), 177. — Anonymous

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers. — Herman Daly

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light. — Clement Greenberg

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. — Gloria Steinem

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does. — Rabih Alameddine

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet. — Dwight Yoakam

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can. — Anne Michaels

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed. — Jon Bon Jovi

Sounds naive respecting someone
who doesn't give a shit about you. — Toba Beta

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the
speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. — David Foster Wallace

Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,
ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war. — Toba Beta

Dare to be naive. — R. Buckminster Fuller

These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim. — Anthony Liccione

You are so naive, it physically aggrieves me. — Kresley Cole

You're naive. We're destroyers, not saviors.
-Kanda Yuu — Katsura Hoshino

You're blond, but surely you can't be so naive as to believe that."
"You're stressed," I countered, "but surely you know you're being an ass. — Sylvia Day

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it. — Oscar Arias

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way. — Anna Faris

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans

Each solution has its origin in the imagination of someone" - Rydgley Naive, "Lyamnay's Shadows — Annarita Faggioni

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's not fair! (Ryssa)
Because life was ever about fairness.
Oh, to be as naive as his sister. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that. — Sonam Kapoor

I'm not big on women looking naive. — Alexander McQueen

Pop art is
the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive! — Robert Indiana

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor. — Ellen Page

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams. — Howard Schultz

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then? — Dan Ariely

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth. — Roy Keane

I pat her on the head. "Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake. — Jenny Han

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman. — Bjarne Stroustrup

In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't even know what bones I'm supposed to want to jump." "Only one, kiddo, and even you aren't that naive. — Nicole Helm

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. — Colum McCann

Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it. — Sarah Wollaston

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. — Lionel Shriver

Mara leans over and whispers in my ear, I know you're charmingly naive when it comes to matters of the heart, but you just stopped him in his tracks. — Rae Carson

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

Normative mind tends to be naive. — Toba Beta

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

Revert me naive! — Toba Beta

You think that just because you're in a politician's house, you're seeing the real person? Pretty naive, Ben. — Allen Zadoff

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at. — Aaron Levie

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality. — Friedrich Schiller

When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right. — Moby

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. — Moby

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour. — David Luiz

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right? — Michael J. Saylor

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth. — Jeff Lindsay

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life. — Edsger Dijkstra

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. — Dave Eggers

Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive. — Marianne Williamson

Schultes was a naive photographer. For him a beautiful image was one of something beautiful. — Wade Davis

And what do you know of love?"
"That it must be a choice."
"Oh, my naive thief. " I pause briefly to meet his gaze. "Love is rarely a choice. — Jessica Khoury

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence. — Toba Beta

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted. — Daniel Kahneman

I don't think women have ever thrown themselves at me, although I'm quite naive about these things, or was when I was available. — Greg Wise

Come on, Eden, don't be naive. Demonic children are a dime a dozen in Netherworld. Need I mention Children of the Corn? Damien? Justine Bieber? — Michelle Rowen

A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid. — Adolf Hitler

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. — Alan Ball

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. — John Ralston Saul

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business. — Willie Nelson

A naive belief in supernatural powers has been dispelled, — James Carroll

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. — Joichi Ito

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity — Craig Mello

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985. — Steven Spielberg

And she's the most brilliant and naive girl I've ever met. I'd give her anything she ever wanted to let me in. To trust me. — C.L.Stone