Credulity Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

— Seneca the Younger

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own…

— Benjamin Franklin

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . .…

— Charles Dickens

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

— William Cowper

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

— Anonymous

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

— Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want…

— Herman Melville

When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring…

— Ayn Rand

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man…

— Samuel Johnson