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Quotes About Gullible

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.
~ Harold B. Lee
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
~ E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
They're naive.
~ Douglas Stone
The most positive men are the most credulous.
~ Alexander Pope
The urge to self-deception, which seemed to Keynes fundamental to untrained and thoughtless people, was what he most resisted. Public opinion he recognized as gullible, uninformed, wayward and super-abundant in misplaced confidence. Improvisations, expedients and thoughtless half-truths led to blunders, as he was to demonstrate in The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Knowing almost nothing about books or serious magazines, intellectually he is a creature of the movie house, where he is an easy prey to fantasies concocted by Hollywood for the gullible. He
~ Richard Wright
Of course I still want to believe him. I don't think it's simply that I am gullible, but I cannot fathom the implications of his behavior. When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.
~ David Sheff
mcMarxism: rich liberals using a perverted form of socialism to deliver the gullible into the claws of a corporatocracy
~ Dean Cavanagh
Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
~ Camille Paglia
When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it give you a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a gullible fool.' When you inflict suffering on others, you are also given a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a cruel villain.' And just as we don't want to admit we are fools, we also don't want to admit we are villains, so we prefer to believe that the story is true.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it gives you a choice: "Either the story is true or I am a gullible fool." When you inflict suffering on others, you are also given a choice: "Either the story is true or I am a cruel villain." And just as we don't want to admit we are fools, we also don't want to admit we are villains. We prefer to believe that the story is true.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
It's ridiculous going around looking for Griqua history and traditions when you know that they're just ordinary coloured people like everyone else, just ordinary gullible people who fell for the nonsense of that madman Le Fleur. Ugh, Sally snorts, the things that pass
~ Zoë Wicomb
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.
~ Pamela Meyer
I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.
~ Jonas Blue
many experts assert that this may be the most gullible and easy-to-deceive generation that has ever lived.
~ Rick Renner
patsy. For as long as I can recall, I've been an easy mark
~ Robert B. Cialdini
That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
People named Jon tend to be highly susceptible to false information online and tend to believe whatever already lines up with their worldview.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.
~ Lisa Kudrow
Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections for violence and domination. When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose, or finds it strangely attractive.
~ Robert Galbraith
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.
~ Roger Zelazny
had been too young, and too infatuated with the plausible
~ Alexander McCall Smith
What they really mean is that "numbers can be used to confuse people, especially the gullible ones lacking basic skills with numbers." With this, I completely agree,
~ Douglas W. Hubbard
In the first place, I don't believe you,' answered I;: 'in the second, if you will be such a fool, I can't hinder it.
~ Anne Bront