I've had great success being a total idiot.
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
I'm too much of a big kid.
You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.
... a fool
Characterizing White House Chief of Staff and fellow Republican Donald T. Regan:
I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.
Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.
How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.
I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!
Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.