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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas S. Szasz

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
Brian Lamb

We told them quite openly everything -- also to HP. Maybe we were naive.
Boris Babaian

It's almost a naive assumption to make.
Andrew Pyle

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

One may appear naive or illogical but it's not naivete or being illogical. It arises from one's faith.
Anita David

Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable.
Michelle Shocked

If some bidders are naive, and they bid the highest amount they're willing to pay, then they may end up overpaying.
Michael Ostrovsky

I would be probably naive to say that there was agreement on all these matters. There are, of course, profound differences in the approach of the two sides.
Albert Rohan

Four years ago, we were naive; there was fierce fighting, ... Now all of us are survivors. We are more calm-minded.
Jack Ma

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire

I've done a lot of color, and I've gone further with geometric prints, ... I went to a much more naive hand, and some of them were done with construction paper and Spiralgraphs, almost like a child would do them.
Nicole Miller

In a way, all these films began with naive, innocent characters getting separated from their environment, in a way that alters them forever.
Rob Bibler

I don't think my life will change. Maybe I'm being naive. I will try to make it work. Fashion is about having a good factory and good employees, and I can do that here.
Chloe Dao

I was perhaps a bit naive ... There were so many conflicting factions [in the Legislature] that you couldn't get enough critical mass.
Jim Campbell

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
Julia Stiles

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.
Johnathan Frakes

It would be naive to take the IRA at its word.
Ian Paisley

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.
Ronny Thompson

People are naive to think somebody is going to give you taxpayers' money and is then completely ignore what you do with it.
Nick Lewis

I may be naive but I really hope that there's a way that something can be learned here.
John Quinlan

Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid!
Homa Arjomand

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
Laurie Lee

It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.
Yeardley Smith

I guess I was naive. I had no idea it would be a black church. I guess I should have put two and two together.
Gary Green

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich von Schiller

[London's Daily Express newspaper said she had sentenced] our democracy to death, ... bizarre, deeply offensive and naive.
Daily Express

I think it's a little naive to think that the state Supreme Court isn't going to at least see this as a message from the Legislature.
Sen. Brad Benson

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.
David Hilbert

The idea that the digital camera is mature is, I believe, a naive view. We are just in the early days of what a processor behind a lens can do.
Mark Cook

She's polite, but she's a little naive. That's what worries me.
Alan Curtis Green

[Bildt claimed Milosevic is naive in his hopes that Karadzic would be knocked out of government by elections.] He wants to get rid of Karadzic, that's for sure, but only through elections, ... I've been telling him that's not good enough, that Karadzic has to be gone before then.
Carl Bildt

He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. He was young and naive.
Katarina Witt

I'm not naive, ... Right now anybody seeing the city of New Orleans would say, 'My God, that's the farthest place from where I'd want to be.'
Norman Francis

We thought he was hopelessly politically naive. In retrospect, he may have been more sophisticated than we were.
Dave Van Ronk

In hindsight it was probably naive of me to make a promise that with commercial realities you can't really keep. But I'm not making any excuses. I made that promise and I regret not being able to keep that promise.
Glenn Matthews

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson

We would all be naive if we didn't think that some of those messages weren't erased.
John Gates

The real concern is that it is spreading. We have not been able to put the fire out yet, and to think we can sit here isolated, you would have to be naive.
Don Roose

I expect him to be with us until the European Championship of 2008. He enjoys the job and we enjoy having him. There is a bigger picture; we are not naive, but we are dealing with having Sven on board for some time to come.
Brian Barwick

I was a little naive thinking how fun it was going to be to live with another family, to learn about each other and support each other.
Carmen Wurgel

I have no doubt that he's well intended. I have no doubt that he's honest. I have no doubt that he means well, but I think this is folly ... the ravings of a genuinely naive person.
David Rieff

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow

We were very naive. We had no idea how much work it would be.
Arlene Cohen Rossen

He was young and naive. We lived in a different world in 1993.
Jan Jones

It is naive to think that what is done to the judicial filibuster will not later be done to its legislative counterpart. The legislative filibuster . . . in the not-so-distant past was our only defense against the excesses of a bipartisan liberalism.
James A. Mcclure

We made a conscious decision to go beyond the music and take a look at the humorous things -- at least as we look at them now. With game shows, and Madison Avenue and how naIve the marketing was then, there is more humor in this show than anything I've done in the past.
Jack Everly

I never mind helping my family. Never. There comes a time when you stop helping and you're being relied upon. I'd never cut them off, but I can't be naive at the same time.
Quintin Mikell

Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six months presidency is either an optimist or naive, ... judge us at the end of the presidency.
Jonathan Allen

We get a lot of inquiries from naive people.
Mike Phillips

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
David Gest

I'm not in a position to say that all athletes are clean. I'm not naive enough to say that. But to say that they're all guilty or imply that they're all guilty of doping is unfair.
Bob Mccormick

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