#naive

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#gravitated #i #instinct #mixture #naivete

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. ↗

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

#arrange #compelling #could #discover #enough

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#american #american government #clinton #everyone #feel

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#naive #oh #parents #tangled #their

Either they're still naive, or stupid. ↗

— Toba Beta

#naive #reality #stupid #youngster #life

"Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls. ↗

— Craig Shirley

#camp #chant #childish #fire #like

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought. ↗

— John Dewey

#empiricism #habit #pragmatism #experience