Harold B. Lee Quotes

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.

I was so gullible as a kid.

I'm gullible.

Sometimes I'm gullible; sometimes I'm not.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.

I never thought I was gullible, but I know that I trust people easily and take people on face value.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

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

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.