Quotes About Gullibility

I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

The call for intelligence is a call for openmindedness, sound judgment, and love for truth. It is a call for men to rise above the stagnation of closedmindedness and the paralysis of gullibility.

unthinkingly exposed themselves to so much deception that they do not even realize they are being deceived.

DOCTOR. Exactly. One can make the insane believe anything, just because they are receptive to everything. LAURA.

Believe me there's no spiteful stupidity, no horror, no absurd story that one can't get the idle-minded folk of a great city to swallow if one goes the right way about it—

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

We are easily duped by those we love.

Among those who said they had heard something about it, 60 percent said they had completely believed it and 8 percent said that they had believed it in part. Among the rest, 14 percent said they had not believed it at first, and 18 percent said that they had not believed it at all.

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.

Honest Fred, the punter's friend, was offering ten thousand to one against it being the end of the world by dawn, and such was the gullibility of people that he was doing a roaring trade. I mean, couldn't they see that if the world did end, Honest Fred wouldn't be there to pay out, and even worse, they wouldn't be there to collect. However, ten thousand to one isn't a bad bet so I had a fiver just in case.

It takes two to make a lie: one to tell it and the other to believe it.

Let the record reflect: the American people are a bunch of suckers.

The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.

He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men.

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.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

Americans, whose self-image is so tied up with fairness, wind up making themselves suckers for the concept.

That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.

But he hasn't got anything on! the whole town cried out at last.

people believe any crackpot conspiracy they see online.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.