Honore de Balzac Quotes

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

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.

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

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

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

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

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

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

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

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

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

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.

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.

I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.