Alexandra Bracken Quotes

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

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.

When you're in love, you'll believe anything.

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

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

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

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.

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

Never trust sheep.

Love is a credulous thing.

It is important not to trust people too much.

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.

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.

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

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

You can't start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.