Quotes About Gullibility

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces....Your guy can walk in the door and promise training in something he personally doesn't know how to do, and not even realize he's bullshitting about his own capabilities. It's a special kind of gullibility....

A spiritual disciple, being internally good and kind, may project these qualities to others who are not mature and not kind. This may lead to gullibility and being easily fooled by others. A disciple must be on guard against this tendency.

She thought it something of a mercy for the gullible to die young, as being too often mistaken breaks the spirit.

Nature wants to propogate our race. What else would it want. We, however, are vain and gullible enough to convince ourselves that it has our happiness in mind.

People will believe anything. Except, it seems, the truth.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

Estaba asombrado de que le hubiera resultado tan fácil. Lo único que tenía que hacer era decirle a la gente lo que la gente quería oír, y te creían, por muy absurda que pudiera ser la historia que les explicaras. Y tres días y tres noches sin dormir habían aletargado los recelos y la capacidad de escepticismo del inspector Flint.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Abraham Lincoln famously noted, it is possible to fool some individuals all the time and all individuals some of the time, but it's not feasible to fool all individuals all the time.

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

You wouldn't believe what people will believe once they know our story. They're ready for anything, basically—will believe anything, because they've been thrown off-balance, are still wondering if any of this is true, our story in general, but aren't sure and are terrified of offending us.

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity." - Weisshaupt

But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.

He earned a national reputation managing large political campaigns, turning them into media-driven extravaganzas with emphasis on sound bites and perception over any kind of substance, and his win rate was astonishingly high. That probably said more for the gullibility of the modern voter than the high standards of the modern candidate, Michelle thought.

The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are.

Onlookers who fell for Bukharin's big moment would fall for anything.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Looking back, Val knew she had a habit of trusting too much, being too passive, too willing to believe the best of others and the worst of herself.

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

You can call it innocence or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: She assumed that everyone else was just like her. Evidence to the contrary found nowhere to lodge, like a book on chaos theory in a library that didn't have a physics section.

You can call it innocence or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: She assumed that everyone else was just like her. Evidence to the contrary found nowhere to lodge, like a book on chaos theory in a library that didn't have a physics section.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

People are just so stupid.