Naivety Quotes

“He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.”

“The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.”

“Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.”

“Let those possess the land, and only those,Who love it with a love so strong and stupidThat they may be abused and taken advantage ofAnd made fun of by business, law, and art.”

“Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.”

“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

“I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.”

“Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.”

“It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.”

“Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.”

“There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”

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

“Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.”