Quotes about Naivete

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A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves ho — Craig D. Lounsbrough
How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest. — Louisa May Alcott, Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
One should use common words to say uncommon things — Arthur Schopenhauer
All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter w — Charles M. Schulz
Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know. — Craig D. Lounsbrough
Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic. — Richie Norton
The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but t — Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur
We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of i — Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon
... People were never quite what you thought they were. — William Golding, Lord of the Flies
we know little of the things for which we pray — Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all ab — Lisi Harrison, Monster High
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of — Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons. — Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in th — Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Optimists are usually inexperienced. — Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ah — Hal Clement, Star Light
She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonse — Jessie Burton, The Muse
I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can' — Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca