Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

I was so gullible as a kid.

I'm gullible.

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

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

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

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

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.

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

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'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

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.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

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.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

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.

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

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

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

We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.