Quotes About Gullibility

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Are elderly women easier to fool than seven-year-olds? Which one wants more desperately to believe that a loved one will return against all odds?

The world loves to be deceived.

She figured if people were dumb enough to believe that crap, they didn't deserve the truth. They probably wouldn't believe it anyway

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

My signature scent is naivete.

I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explaination didn't even involve sunlight. These people will believe anything. They will say anything.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

It is amazing the things people will believe if you catch them early enough.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

Love is an affair of credulity.

Mr. President," he says, almost like a southern drawl, thick with incredulity. This man could look you in the eye and tell you that the world is flat, the sun rises in the west, and the moon is made of blue cheese, and he'd probably pass a polygraph test while doing so.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

Indeed, what was remarkable about this scheme wasn't Ponzi. It was his victims. If people really would believe that a 34-year-old ex-bank clerk who had just served three years in prison for check kiting was capable of doubling their money in six months by exchanging millions of 10 cent postal coupons from Europe – well, if they would believe that, then they would believe anything.

When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.' When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive. Yes, one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget. There

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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

The fact that Manti Te'o thought for a long time that he was dating, like, a fake girl and then that she died and did the tribute and the girl never existed. I mean inherently that's funny.