naivety [Theme] Page 5

- What an incredible naivety.
- Well, I was born only yesterday.

Smart, honest and straightforward person can fall into the trap: he did not come to mind that someone will want to catch him on a mistake and turn it into ridicule. The trust puts in this caution, but foolish jokers and enjoy it. So much the worse for those who try to make fun of him again, such a person can be fooled only once.

I'm naive! I'm gullible! I'm easily deceived!

She considered him a good person, maybe sometimes too within the role of the practical pig. And, unfortunately, he was distinguished unbearable naivety in some of the elementary questions of morality. He was kind, indulgent and forgiving, trying to look for explanations and justification of human actions, it has failed to learn that the predators around the world understand only one language.

... because nothing impresses naive, wise life experience people like a semblance of justice, and nothing is found so rarely in real life.

Children. Not yet spoiled, sincere, trusting, direct. Not soiled, disfigured by meanness and cruelty of the world. Or at least almost not stained...

From all life's storms and showers,
bogs and screes of stones
blessed are those who have become naive,
unhappy all, who was smarter.

The distinction between trust and naive existence is huge, but the dividing line is very thin. To be naive means being ignorant. Trust is the most intelligent action in existence. Signs that you need to remember are: both will be deceived, but naive will feel cheated, will start to doubt people. His naivete sooner or later become doubt. A person who believes, also will be deceived, but it won't hurt. He will simply feel compassion towards those who deceived him, and he will not lose confidence. His trust will never turn into a distrust of humanity.
<...> The confidence of so great value that people are willing to lose everything, but not confidence.

The peoples there are stupid habit to ascribe to the kings of their own exploits. They were fighting about. Who gets the glory? King. They pay money. Who has the money luxuriate? King. And people like the fact that his king is so rich. The king collects from the poor to the ECU, and returns them to the penny. As he is generous! Colossus serves as a pedestal and admires him standing on a pygmy.

If the person is naive by personal choice, if you can call it naivety?

Among the gentlemen who have devoted their life to charity, were not only crooks. Occasionally there are two or profoundly naive. They sincerely believed that, after collecting a certain amount of funds, you can improve the morals, to help the underprivileged or to contribute to progress. In General, trying to do completely useless things. In addition to charitable subscriptions, a fashionable way of obtaining money became a daytime charity balls. To get on it, it was necessary to have an invitation and a fair amount. In return to get a day off in the service, pretty fun and the feeling that I contribute in something good, though it is not clear what.

But how wonderful in this age of devaluation of morality to meet such sincere, untainted innocence!

But it was impossible to leave such an outrage unpunished! <...>
The captain sympathetically patted his friend on the shoulder, like a little boy who believes in law, justice, civil duty and spider-Man.

I'm not asking to believe me good. But to be honest, I was somewhat angry that other killing packs for the sake of illusory good intentions or stupid ideals, writes in heroes and saints. Let me tell you a terrible secret - often at the heart of all of their actions are, or money, or power. Or both. Sages with bright ideals, dreams to dignify the universe and other rotten nonsense usually in our world are not delayed.