Martha Beck Quotes

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

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

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

Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.

By nature, I tended to trust people and was typically open and transparent... But such transparency would go astray when others saw us out of context or when I gave trust to those few who were unworthy of it.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

As an actor, you blindly put your trust in experts - and if they tell you something's safe, you don't fully vet it yourself. If you're young and inexperienced, that's just what you're taught to do.

Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

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

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

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.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

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

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

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

You can't stop trusting people just because of a few people.

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

I maybe trust too much.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.