Quotes About Gullibility

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity

No hay hombre que, fuera de su especialidad, no sea crédulo;

It is not in truth very difficult to befool a man who does half the fooling himself.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

Stupids dance on the same floor with the one who secretly befools them.

When a liar speaks to the audience, only fools believe his forged, sweet stories.

I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the sex, as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster.

when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many people, too much of the time.

I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple. Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

He who used to create fake news is talking on Anti-Hindus topic and the fools are applauding him.

Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not

Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.