Unwarranted Trust Quotes

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

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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 focused my mind and energies on short-term Trump problems, which allowed me to avoid thinking about my own long-term Trump problem of having given him the benefit of the doubt for more than a decade, despite having many reasons not to.

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

It may be tempting to yield to the seductive allure of secrecy in order to preserve the illusion of security.

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?