Quotes About Credulity

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm a bleeping idiot.

Of course, that a sentence is utterly fallacious has never prevented it from being believed by large numbers of people and, on occasion, used as a foundational principle for a comprehensive philosophy of life.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Basically, anyone who reads the National Enquirer or watches pro wrestling on TV is easy to convert.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

The world will need sceptics after the war is over. Too many people are ready to believe anything they're told.

He shook his head. "Those are the dumbest sons of bitches on earth." "They've become like little children, as you told them to." "Stupid little children," Joshua said.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?