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
I didn’t actually realise what apartheid meant. I’m probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses. – John Deacon
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. – Michael Moore
There’s so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if they’re on your side. – Linus Roache
I don’t know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways. – Laurie Lee
The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor. – Oliver Platt
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does. – Rabih Alameddine
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. – Zadie Smith
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
My fragrance is rose and amber, and I was just very specific. A lot of what I’ve done, at the stages I’ve done it, I’ve been a little naive, which brought with it a kind of charm. I did Stella a while ago. It’s now a bit of a classic. – Stella McCartney
