61 Quotes About Naivety

An hour of innocence builds more trust than years of diplomacy.

You're only naive once. Use it well.

Innocent like the first dreamsA few words dropped on the paper;Contaminated they were by the surrounding air,Fame swarmed, naivety disappeared!

For such a worldly, surly bastard, Bas had always been incredibly innocent. Always seen the best in people.

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?

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

Our ignorance oftenaccelerates us.So much of what we knowof motionpropelled by what we don’t knowabout impact.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

I guess she thought if I stayed with her or if I got in touch with her while I was here, I would end up fucked up. But I'm already fucked up and she is too naïve to think she can change that.