Quotes About Credulous

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

Some people are just naive to what they say.

the religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in fear and doubt who is openly exploited to believe in the impossible

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

Our species will never run out of fools but I dare say that there have been at least as many credulous idiots who professed faith in god as there have been dolts and simpletons who concluded otherwise.

The highest art in low politics is to be able to induce the masses to invest their own sense of dignity in yours. Then, if you are exposed as a fraud, they will be exposed as credulous: a conclusion they approach with a natural human reluctance.

technology that seems magical and miraculous can encourage and confirm credulous people's belief in make-believe magic and miracles.

Be circumspect, for to a credulous eye, He comes invisible, veil'd with flattery, And flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs...

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

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

It is remarkable that what we call the world, which is so very credulous in what professes to be true, is most incredulous in what professes to be imaginary; and that, while, every day in real life, it will allow in one man no blemishes, and in another no virtues, it will seldom admit a very strongly-marked character, either good or bad, in a fictitious narrative, to be within the limits of probability.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

Women are proverbially credulous.

You're naïve, to say the least.

Men over-estimate what they desire Through ignorance of it: credulous Pursuit Thinks his betrothed, Possession, is divine; But finds she is a mortal like himself.

I never thought I was gullible, but I know that I trust people easily and take people on face value.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Fools are easily fooled.

And although I played along with him for a while so as not to prick his bubble, inside I felt pretty bleak indeed, because now I knew that he was going to be just as pliable and credulous as everyone else, he didn't appear to have anything close to the firepower I'd need to give me any hope of getting helped out of the trap of fraudulence and unhappiness I'd constructed for myself.

A fool is excited by every word.

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

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

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