Quotes Tagged "naive"

Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world. 1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife, to have a break down and be hospitalized. 2.He was a ladies man and was known to have had several affairs; infidelity was listed as a reason for his divorce. 3.He married his cousin. 4.He had an estranged relationship with his son. 5. He had his first child out of wedlock. 6. He urged the FDR to build the Atom bomb, which killed thousands of people. 7. He was Jewish, yet he made many arguments for the possibility of God. Yet, hypocritically he did not believe in the Jewish God or Christianity. He stated, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

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

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

I am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California.

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

I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.

Too often people view idealists as naive.