Quotes About Gullible

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant expert. You have a degree? Well, I did a Google search!

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

It was clear that he was in love, because he became even more gullible than before. 

Love is a credulous thing.

Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find. Skepticism does not sell well.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Mystical references to 'society' and its programs to 'help' may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

A white wall is the fool's paper.

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

And like a fool, I bought into it.

what's more, he believed that collectively they were even bigger suckers than they were individually.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

No way that was a act. She really is that gullible. She really is dumb as a sack of moondust. Yet very sweet. Eve rolled her eyes toward him. I think you have to have a penis to get that impression.

I mean, when certain beliefs and traditions survive for centuries, there's a reason for it." "Sure there is, human beings are, and always have been, gullible. And there are, and always have been, individuals who know how to exploit that gullibility.

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Hypocrisy was the essential nature of all modes of human control. The brilliant few did as they wished, while convincing the gullible many to follow rules they themselves disdained.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Due diligence people are easy to manipulate. You just have to act really diligent. They eat it up.

The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There's no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool's errand.

Basically, anyone who reads the National Enquirer or watches pro wrestling on TV is easy to convert.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

I'm incredibly naive.