“Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.”
David Hilbert
“If anything, he might be a little bit naive about what goes on in this town,”
Michael Oxley
“I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.”
Ann Landers
“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”
Johnny Carson
“It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.”
Yeardley Smith
“It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption”
James Thurber
“In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.”
Albert Camus
