60 Quotes About Naivete

Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.

Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.

For goodness that is beyond virtue, and hence beyond temptation, ignorant of the argumentative reasoning by which man fends off temptations and, by this very process, comes to know the ways, of wickedness, is also incapable of learning the arts of persuading and arguing.

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

Our progress has been almost exclusively technological, which means that we are able to manipulate the physical world ever more sensationally, to increase the speed, the span, and the powers of material existence without any clear idea of what to do with the time gained and the powers acquired.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

You're young.' she'd continued briskly. 'Life will cure you of naive assumptions. The only thing one can count on is that no else can truly be counted on.