Unworldly Quotes

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

I've never been scared, but I'm very naive.

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

I think sometimes naivety can be a gift.

Some people are just naive to what they say.

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

I'm a baby face in real life - in person.

We were kids when we started.

We're all idealistic when young.

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

I'm incredibly naive.

My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Lincoln has few of the qualities of a politician and ... cannot do much personally to advance his interests …. a guileless man.

I was so gullible as a kid.

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I'm speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered.

I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

I've played a lot of wide-eyed kids.

Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.

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

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.