Quotes About Gullibility

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

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.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

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

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

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

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

La gente adopta una fe y se pone muy seria, después solemne. Empieza a creerse cuanto viene amparado o envuelto por esa fe, y entonces se vuelve estúpida.

The fact that a proposition is absurd has never hindered those who wish to believe it.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.