Quotes About Credulity

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Better be too credulous than too skeptical

Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear.

And like a fool, I bought into it.

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

Many of them blindly believe in it.

Anyone who listens to news is one step below sucker.

For Tony, the distinction in life isn't True or False, but rather sucker or nonsucker.

Teller. We have always been suckers for those who tell us about the future

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

The sad truth about humanity, Risa was quick to realize, is that people believe what they are told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

At that moment he could have said the earth was made of chocolate pudding and I would have believed it.

Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled? Maybe. Or maybe with so much conflicting media, people just shut down. Maybe that's the point.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe.

The sad truth about humanity, Risa was quick to realize, is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity

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

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way – even when these stories concern their own native countries.

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

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties...Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

I worry about a world in which many people will believe anything, but I worry far more about one in which people believe nothing beyond their own preconceptions.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.