Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

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.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

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

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.

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

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

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.

One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

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?

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

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

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

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

The more you are in public life, the more you wonder at the credulity of the average human being.