Sharon Tate Quotes

I was so gullible as a kid.

I'm gullible.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.

For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn't think anyone would want to do anything to harm me, but I learned through trial and error that that's not the case.

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

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

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.

I'm a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

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

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

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