Zadie Smith Quotes

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

Being a little naive can work to your advantage.

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.

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

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

I think sometimes naivety can be a gift.

Innocence is ignorance.

When you are young, you are a little naive.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to government.

If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.

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

Sometimes it's good to be naive.

I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.

I may be a bit innocent but I don't think I am that dumb.

We were kids when we started.

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

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

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive.