Best Naivety Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”

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Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.”

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Author:Heston Blumenthal

“There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ("soit possible", Fr.); now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.”

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Author:African Spir

“A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.”

People Thinking Children Said Speak Voice Natural Naivety

Author:Geri Halliwell

“People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.”

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Author:Michael Haneke

“The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow.”

People Tomorrow Cemetery Naivety Naivete

Author:Boonaa Mohammed

“Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.”

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Author:Shirley MacLaine

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

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Book:Needful Things

Source: Needful Things

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

“I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.”

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Author:Robert Winston

“I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.”

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Author:Andre Breton

“The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.”

Ifs Enough Facts Problem Science Faith Solutions Scientist Compelling Naive Naivety

Book:Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species

Source: Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species

“Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.”

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Author:Simon Cowell

“I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.”

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Author:Michel Gondry

“To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”

“The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.”

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Book:Made with words

Source: Made with words

“I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.”

Men Birdsong Naivety

Author:Nick Drake

“Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.”

Ifs States Earth Lying Nations Imagination United United States Cynicism Cheeks Idealistic Naivety

Author:Terry Eagleton

“In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.”

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Author:Vinod Khosla