Quotes About Gullibility

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

Dit is de pest met mensen: als ze eenmaal geloven bestaat het gevaar dat ze alles aannemen.

And the sad thing is that while men refuse to believe the Word of the living God, yet they are sufficiently credulous to accept Satan's lies.

To be fool enough to believe a ramping, stamping, thumping lie: that is what you call sincerity!

You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

Most scams are absurd - so absurd that one wonders how anyone falls for them at all; yet if no one falls for them, how do the scammers make money?

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is too believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Life has lots of genuine-sounding simulated answers waiting to be snatched up by gullible takers.

You made up the truth and then buried the real thing under so much garbage that people grew weary of trying to dig through it and instead just accepted what you offered. It was the easy way out and humans were programmed to always go that way.

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.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with hell following after.