Quotes About Gullibility

Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

The Christian surely must be a person of passion rather than of reasonableness; of discernment rather than gullibility.

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way – even when these stories concern their own native countries.

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties...Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

I worry about a world in which many people will believe anything, but I worry far more about one in which people believe nothing beyond their own preconceptions.

Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.

am not exaggerating; it can be scary to see what some people will believe in order to feel superior.

I was ever mindful not to allow open-mindedness to become gullibility nor to allow skepticism to become cynicism.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

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. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back

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.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.'fn1

fools believe in foolish things.

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

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

Toliko je živa kod slabog ?ovjeka potreba da se vara i tako neograni?ena mogu?nost da bude prevaren.

I mean, when certain beliefs and traditions survive for centuries, there's a reason for it." "Sure there is, human beings are, and always have been, gullible. And there are, and always have been, individuals who know how to exploit that gullibility.

I could write a book - if I could write, ha ha - about how many times I've been ripped off lending money to people. I'm an absolutely unbelievable soft touch. Unbelievable. I never learn my lesson.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.