Quotes About Gullibility

I do have that bad habit, so female, of taking people at their word.

Tell me. I'll believe it. I always believe anything anyone tells about myself – don't you?

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

Gullibility can be thought of as a social psychological analog of anosognosia. The chronic patsy refuses to acknowledge his weakness. His denial is nourishing to his self-esteem. "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge," Charles Darwin observed.24 But it also prevents you from avoiding the same mistake next time.

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

Didn't he know that she was playing him? The funny thing was that they almost never, ever did. And even after they figured it out, they doubted themselves. Wanted to believe they were wrong. Even when there was no denying that they'd been had, you could almost always go back for a second helping.

it's the good and open hearted people, those with the most to give, who are the most vulnerable. Because they think everyone is honest as they are.

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

and if a fool is believed then those who believe him are even bigger fools.

You lie even to yourself. Now that is the mark of a fool.

People are far more stupid than that.

Confiar, una palabra solo apta para idiotas

It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Don't hang noodles on my ears.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

No person can fool all the people all the time.

People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same. (Lena, 211)

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I was just a fool.

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

A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fools.