Evan Williams Quotes

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

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

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

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

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.

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

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

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.