Quotes About Gullible

Like many things he had believed, it had all been an illusion, only true because he had been gullible enough to believe in it. In reality, it had all been as flimsy and fleeting as an optical illusion; it depended entirely on your point of view. In calendar time, perhaps, those days weren't so long ago, but in his memory they sometimes seemed as if they had been dreamed by another person in another century.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Adherent: Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Partidario: alguien que dirá cualquier cosa.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Adepto: alguien que creerá cualquier cosa excepto lo que debería.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Interviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

It was a credulous age... as all ages are.

Abbie wondered why she was even bothering to stay alive, when she was evidently so gullible and pathetic and pointless. The only thing that stopped her taking an overdose was, she couldn't be bothered.

Boys fell for so many things you wouldn't think they'd believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid.

the average American was as gullible as a wide-mouthed shad

I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

She acted naively and impulsively

If you're naive - which means immature, inexperienced, or a bit thick - you get eaten alive.

There's a difference between being humble and being gullible. Those who cant distinguish live a sad life of arrogant ignorance and blind devotion.

When we trade the effort of doubt and debate for the ease of blind faith, we become gullible and exposed, passive and irresponsible observers of our own lives. Worse still, we leave ourselves wide open to those who profit by influencing our behavior, our thinking, and our choices. At that moment, our agency in our own lives is in jeopardy.

T requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

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

The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime." "What's that, O'Brien?" replied I … "Why, Peter," rejoined he, "it's the stuff they feed fools on." —P. Simple, Marryat

Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept Communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won't have to fight you; We'll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

Only a fool can't be fooled.

A lot of people pretend to be. They wear robes and put on airs to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible. But