Quotes About Not Being Gullible

#1. Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

William Ames

#2. It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Lana Turner

#4. I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Richard Bach

#5. He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. The most difficult lesson is not being bitter - that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#7. I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you

Rudolfo Anaya

#8. When you assume responsibility for what you experience
and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship,
that is the same as forgiveness.
When you hold someone responsible for what you experience,
you lose power.

Gary Zukav

#9. Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Terry Pratchett

#10. You say you know everything. Okay, you mind telling me what kinda headcase are you?

Shreya Gupta

#11. I never give anyone advice: it can backfire horribly. In the 1950s, Eric Morecambe told Ken Dodd to get his teeth fixed. But those teeth turned out to be one of Dodd's big selling points.

Paul Merton

#12. Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible.

John Updike

#13. Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

Thomas Sowell

#14. Has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brains?

Jess Walter