Quotes About Gullibility

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

those who believe in nothing for long enough will eventually believe in anything.

people so often seemed not only willing but eager to believe the worst—and the worse, the better.

It certainly takes a rather simplistic gullibility to accept that the American efforts to colonize the Moon were abruptly canceled because the public, of all things, had lost interest.

We are morally adrift, spiritually bankrupt, enamored with the ever-growing catalog of false idols that is consumerism, politically gullible, rage-drunk, media fattened, and ripe for a culling at the hands of one tragedy or another that will no doubt rip the golden dome of American life off its rotten foundations.

They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool.

It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

You should. It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

There is something universal about being stood up in a city restaurant between one and two—a spiritual no-man's-land, whose blasted trees, entrenchments, and ratholes we all share, disarmed by the gullibility of our hearts.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived.

he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

The nonreader in our culture wants to believe. He is the "one born every minute". The world is so vastly confusing and baffling to him that he feels there has to be some simple answer to everything that troubles him.

There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." —JAMES THURBER

It was his nature to believe anything, before he would believe he could be wrong.

Even before I had fully discovered the concepts of astrology, homeopathy, organised religion and probiotic yoghurts I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility.

I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing-enough voice and they would believe it. Anything, of course, except the truth.