Quotes About Credulity

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity

No hay hombre que, fuera de su especialidad, no sea crédulo;

En términos generales, tres son los grupos en que se podría dividir el público lector de periódicos: 1°. Los crédulos, que admiten todo lo que leen. 2°. Aquellos que ya no creen nada. 3°. Los espíritus críticos, que analizan lo leído y saben juzgar.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.

Kad se jedna laž ponavlja dugo, narod po?inje da veruje.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many people, too much of the time.

In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did was allow people's enthusiastic credulity to do the work for him.

Too credulous a woman's longing flies And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why. J: Oh, yes, it would be so. They think they know, you see. That's always dangerous. ~Wharton; Jessop

It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.

Retired soldiers are the worst sufferers when they engage in financial operations. I have found that their credulity far exceeds that of widows--and that is saying a good deal.

I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once.

?nsanlar yalanlara gerçeklerden daha kolay inan?rlar.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.