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Top 73 Naive Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 20, 2020

“I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.”

― Alanna Ubach

“When I debuted at NXT, I was naive, and look where it got me. I was overlooked and underestimated.”

― Alexa Bliss

“I’m not big on women looking naive.”

― Alexander McQueen

“At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn’t understand who I really was to a whole culture.”

― Allen Iverson

“I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they’re a little naive – you made it because you needed it.”

― Amy Sedaris

“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.”

― Anatole France

“I grew up in Indiana. I’m a late bloomer, very naive.”

― Arija Bareikis

“I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.”

― Ben Kingsley

“Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.”

― Bill Gurley

“I’m still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.”

― Brit Marling

“It’s naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it’s everywhere.”

― Chris Coleman

“I’m incredibly naive.”

― Christina Ricci

“Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.”

― Christy Turlington

“I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.”

― Claude Levi-Strauss

“I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.”

― David Gest

“The audiences used to say, ‘Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?’ It was all very naive, really.”

― Donovan

“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ’em both a little bit naive.”

― E. Y. Harburg

“As an actress, you have to be very naive.”

― Elizabeth Marvel

“It’s one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.”

― Eric Metaxas

“I think I’m a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.”

― Ethan Slater

“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”

― Friedrich Schiller

“It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there’s a whole second adulthood!”

― Gail Sheehy

“The term ‘sell out’ is juvenile and naive.”

― Gavin McInnes

“Being a little naive can work to your advantage.”

― Gia Coppola

“I guess I am politically very naive.”

― Gita Gopinath

“I really wish people – maybe it’s naive – wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.”

― Harold Prince

“You cannot play naive if you’re not.”

― Ida Lupino

“Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.”

― Imre Lakatos

“Too often people view idealists as naive.”

― Jacqueline Novogratz

“Most people aren’t good or bad. They’re naive.”

― Jake LaMotta

“It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.”

― James Thurber

“I’m interested in light. It’s a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.”

― James Turrell

“I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.”

― Janeane Garofalo

“We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.”

― Jay DeMarcus

“As a female actress – I’ve been doing this since I was a teenager – I often got approached with the ingenue roles: naive and wide-eyed and childlike.”

― Jessica Henwick

“Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.”

― John Ralston Saul

“The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.”

― Joichi Ito

“Negotiating with Iran and believing they will keep their word is naive at best.”

― Kathy Szeliga

“I’ve never been scared, but I’m very naive.”

― Kelsea Ballerini

“When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.”

― Kim Wilde

“I was so naive I didn’t even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.”

― Kirstie Alley

“I’m pretty gloriously positive and naive in a way.”

― Kirstin Maldonado

“Don’t be naive and allow a man to take advantage of you.”

― Kriti Kharbanda

“I’m not naive.”

― Lane Kiffin

“If you’re an advocate of gentleness, you’re simplistic and naive. If you’re an advocate of despair and hate, you’re sophisticated.”

― Leo Buscaglia

“The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.”

― Ludwig Quidde

“I have a naive outlook on life. That’s who I am.”

― M. Night Shyamalan

“When you are young, you are a little naive.”

― Maria Sharapova

“If anything is naive and lightweight, it’s the traditional political conversation.”

― Marianne Williamson

“Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.”

― Mason Cooley

“Sometimes it’s good to be naive.”

― Michael Pena

“My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.”

― Mika

“I’d much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.”

― Moby

“I’m kind of in love with my theater agent. I’m a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.”

― Nathan Englander

“Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became ‘pro’-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.’ s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.”

― Norman Finkelstein

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.”

― Ogden Nash

“One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump’s base.”

― Pamela Meyer

“My dream was to play for Chelsea – maybe I was bit naive.”

― Patrick Bamford

“I’m passionate about what I do. I’d be naive to be passive.”

― Paul Mooney

“Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.”

― Peter Greenaway

“It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.”

― Rachel Morrison

“Maybe it’s that I’m naive, but I don’t think of myself as an age.”

― Rene Russo

“Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama ‘naive’ on foreign policy.”

― Richard Grenell

“I’ve got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.”

― Roy Choi

“As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie.”

― Rza

“I don’t think we should ever be at war. That’s kind of naive, I suppose.”

― Sandy Duncan

“I’m not naive. It’s football. You’re going to make mistakes.”

― Saquon Barkley

“I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.”

― Sheldon Lee Glashow

“She wasn’t as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.”

― Shiri Appleby

“Under popular culture’s obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.”

― Stanley Crouch

“I was so naive to think once you sign, it’s all good, and you are a superstar.”

― William Singe

“Countries like France should not be naive. We don’t have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.”

― Xavier Niel

“I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.”

― Zadie Smith

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