Quotes About Gullibility

The credulity of crowds is never-ending.

I don't necessarily admire whom and what you choose to read and the gullibility with which you take at face value rationalist blasphemies spouted by an immoralist of the ilk of Bertrand Russell, four times married, a blatant adulterer, an advocate of free love, a self-confessed socialist dismissed from his university position for his antiwar campaigning during the First War and imprisoned for that by the British authorities.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician—but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

Kendi kendine ?i?inen, gelece?e biraz erken inanm?? bir-iki yaygarac?y? da yaln?z aptallar adam yerine koyar.

In that atmosphere, false information flourishes; and subjects in tests are "eager to listen to and believe any sort of preposterous nonsense."16

Why resort to welfare cuts when you could aim more accurately at what you claim to be the real problem: intelligence itself? Why not improve education? Indeed, why aim your policy at increasing intelligence at all? There are many other desirable human traits. Why not reduce gullibility, aggressiveness, or greed?

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Un tonto: un hombre tratando de ser honesto con los deshonestos.

He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard. So if you say it like you really mean it to be true, then you're away.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

Men are so easily drawn to fake things.

There are two ways to be fooled, kultaseni, my little gold. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

The important thing in dealing with the Indian is not to believe everything you hear.

I despise the man who is gullible enough to disbelieve in resurrection. Such a person cannot be very intelligent and trustworthy. In fact, we have a moral duty to adopt a low opinion of him.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.