(78 quotes found)
“We have all been naive.”
Athole Still
“I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.”
Julie Gerberding
“It's almost a naive assumption to make.”
Andrew Pyle
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”
Neil Gaiman
“It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be”
Anatole France
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted thier answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I as looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I could answer. It took me a while and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fame is proof that people are gullible”
“I used to naively believe that heavily regulated industries - airlines, insurance, etc. - would show above-average rates of return due to barriers to entry and, therefore, reduced competition. Clearly that is not the case.”
Alan Brown