Naivity Quotes

“Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I knew everything of the law.
Little of life
and less of love”
― Anthony Neilson, Neilson Plays:1: Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; Night Before Christmas; Censor

“The obvious connection between personal unhappiness and the tendency to easily believe the incredible is the most interesting conclusion of this study.”
― George Orwell, Orwell on Truth

“The naive thinks that all wisdom lies within and no one can teach him. The wise became wise, because he accepted his nescience and opened his eyes to see the Wisdom and the Beauty around him.”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“I guess I’m only talking about my childhood. Things that become part of you when you’re a child and then you grow up and somehow they don’t—and that’s how you never get to be a mature person, an adult, with those naïve beliefs in you that never grew up . . .”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting, I am pretty damn
naive. But I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar:
it can crumble so easily, but don't be afraid
to stick your tongue out and taste it.”
― Sarah Kay, (No Matter the Wreckage) [By: Kay, Sarah] [Mar, 2014]