Naive in sentence

490 examples of Naive in a sentence

It is naive beyond description to think that having blocked this source of financial collapse, you have blocked all possible sources of financial collapse.

Now Ken and I are not naive, and we understand that you need to have rules.

And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting, I am pretty damn naive.

In his great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan, addressed to his naive and devout younger brother, Alyosha: "If the sufferings of children go to make up the sum of sufferings which is necessary for the purchase of truth, then I say beforehand that the entire truth is not worth such a price.

And as I look back over 30 years ago, it was a little naive to think at that age that I could.

Now I'm not naive.

And over the course of six months, I would corner them in the hallway and ask them a sort of naive but fundamental question: "If you had unlimited resources, what's the one thing you would give your patients?"

It was a naive thought in many people's minds, and it's true, it was just a t-shirt slogan that worked for the moment.

You are a practitioner of Whig history, a naive optimist, a Pollyanna and, of course, a Pangloss, alluding to the Voltaire character who declared, "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."

And at the very core of this crisis of mine, I felt somehow the life of music had chosen me, where somehow, perhaps possibly in a very naive sense, I felt what Skid Row really needed was somebody like Paul Farmer and not another classical musician playing on Bunker Hill.

So, being naive, and being half-German, I decided, "Aris, why don't you build your own map?"

And I'm not that naive, because a lot of the time I've been asked, many times I've been asked, "Yeah, but, this is really naive, sending flowers over, I mean — " I was in the army.

Now, am I being naive?

Is it naive to think that people could ever lay down their swords, and left and right could actually work together?

you might be able to look at brain activity and say, "This person's going to be a good poker player," or, "This person's socially naive," and we might also be able to study things like development of adolescent brains once we have an idea of where this circuitry exists.

That's a naive way to understanding what is a much deeper and more systematic social problem.

That's a very naive notion, right?

That's a naive way of creating a social change.

Now, some might accuse me of being naive, putting my faith in the power and the wisdom of the people.

Call this naive if you like.

Are you just being naive?

I was probably 30 and naive.

Now for many of you, this story might seem trivial or naive.

These figures are sort of entrapped within this very strong grid, which is like a prison, but also a fortress, because it allows them to be oblivious and naive and carefree and quite oblivious of the external world.

KH: I mean, maybe I'm naive, but I thought it was going to be great.

There are the naive who believe that good things just happen and the cynical who believe that bad things just happen, the fortunate and unfortunate alike who think that their lot is simply what they deserve rather than the eminently alterable result of a prior arrangement, an inherited allocation, of power.

And I'll be honest: I was a young, naive, Sri Lankan girl, (Laughter) who had no previous research experience.

Amongst other things, we were called naive.

These people thought that I was too naive.

Before I could say anything, tell him how foolish he had made me look in front of my friends, he derided me for being so naive.

Related words