Naive Thinking Quotes

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea, and it would change things. That's a harmless conceit. With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

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

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Maybe I see things too naively at times.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

It's naive to think we're the only living beings in this universe.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly