Charles Lamb Quotes

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

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

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

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

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

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

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.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I was so gullible as a kid.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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

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

I maybe trust too much.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.