Naivete

Naivete is his only merit.

I believed this promise with unbelievably great naivete for a long time.

The beautiful simplicity and naivete of the man’s character, the mean circumstances in which his life was cast, the fortitude, industry, and manliness with which he triumphed over his difficulties—these things explain much that seems at first sight futile in his art and colour even his worst failures with a glow of purely human sympathy.