Naive Trust Quotes

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

When I came down south and was put together with big producers, I always thought that they knew best. I never thought for a minute that they might have another agenda.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.