“ I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the… Criss Jami
“ Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like th… Joseph Conrad
“ At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized the actual absurdity of the situation and began to… Lin Zhao
“ Innocent like the first dreamsA few words dropped on the paper;Contaminated they were by the surrounding air,Fame swarmed, naivety disappeared! Neelam Saxena Chandra
“ The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all again. W.H. Auden
“ For such a worldly, surly bastard, Bas had always been incredibly innocent. Always seen the best in people. Sherrilyn Kenyon
“ I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path. Andre Gide
“ She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers. David Anthony Durham
“ Tacitus laughed at the Germanic tribes who tried to stop a torrent with their shields, but it is no less naive to believe in planetary migration or to believe in the establishment by purely human mean… Frithjof Schuon
