A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

I think maybe I'm just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the good in people.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

She always wanted to believe in things.

I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

We have to choose faith even if we don't feel it. Or hold on to a friend who has faith.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

I have never been a cynical person.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.

Call me crazy, but I still believe in you grownups!

I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

My dad, like, he's the most trusting human in the world.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.