Quotes About Gullibility

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

Having strained out qualified experts, journalists, and scientists, gullible Christians swallowed any number of frauds and fools, rendering themselves susceptible to the actual shallow ideologies and "empty deceit" I was warned about in Colossians 2:8 as a boy.

Far too many people will believe anything of those they hate, no matter how absurd or patently fabricated it may be.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.

Goodness in the form of innocence can render you a pray to others. In a predatory world , it is not always easy to distinguish virtue from guillibility. This is one reason why there is something quaint as well as imposing about the word 'virtue'.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Third Time tricked, marks the fool.

First Rule: people would believe any lie, either because they wanted to believe it was true, or because they feared it was.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid ti might be true. Zed

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything

Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People would believe any lie, either because they wanted it to be true, or because they feared it was.

It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.' 'Oh, there is,' said Susan. 'Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.

If you like someone, you'll believe anything they say," Matteus said. "Think about that for a while. When you sit in your office talking to Johnny Beskow.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

A man will believe anything that does not cost him anything," said

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.