Quotes About Gullibility

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

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.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

To vÅ¡e se dÄ›je až poté, co se ukázalo, že to celé o Velikono?ním zají?kovi byl kec. I po odhalení podvod? s JežíÅ¡kem a s vílou kmotÃ…â"¢i?kou a se svatým KryÅ¡tofem a s newtonovskou fyzikou a s modelem atomu podle Nielse Bohra, i potom ten pitomý klu?ina poÃ…â"¢ád v??il mamce.

Because only a fool believes everything they read or are told.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense.

Oh, I say I have an ocelot and it's a joke, but I've had so many news programs in this country say, 'So what's it like, having an ocelot?" And I'll say, "It's marvelous just to see them run free. When feeding time comes and they're mewling, it just warms your heart.' People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It's not just me. Look around.

The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.

Women are more credulous than men.

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

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

There's nothing so absurd that you can't find at least one person to buy it.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

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

Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.

If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find somebody ready to be deceived.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. --Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940)

Ihr seid beide so nachgiebig, daß ihr nie zu einem Entschluß kommen werdet, so gutgläubig, daß euch alle Dienstboten übers Ohr hauen, und so freigebig, daß ihr ständig eure Einkünfte übersteigen werdet.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?