Quotes About Gullibility

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

It could happen. People could be fooled. Memory is short.

You cannot fool all of the people, all of the time.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion.

A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario. Uno nunca miente a la gente; se mienten a ellos mismos. Un buen mentiroso les da a los bobos lo que quieren oír. Ese es el secreto. —Eso

A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario.

Obviously you've got the aptitude for the job." Gullibility and poor judgment must be prerequisites.

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

People want to believe bad things, I tell myself, glaring around at my classroom. They want to believe the most shocking story. They see you as the worst version of yourself.

If this century was to be known by anything other than its fair share of atrocities and diseases, then surely the gullibility of the weak-minded would qualify as a footnote.

desperate people can make themselves believe anything!

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear.

I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

I prefer to use stories and vignettes to illustrate our gullibility about stories and our preference for the dangerous compression of narratives.*

Anyone who listens to news is one step below sucker.

For Tony, the distinction in life isn't True or False, but rather sucker or nonsucker.

Teller. We have always been suckers for those who tell us about the future

At that moment he could have said the earth was made of chocolate pudding and I would have believed it.