Quotes About Credulity

There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!

Photographs and videos are often misperceived and can be easily doctored, and lights in the sky have many prosaic explanations: aerial flares, lighted balloons, experimental aircraft, helicopters, clouds, swamp gas, or even the planet Venus, which, if you are driving on an undulating highway away from city lights, really does appear to be a bright light following your car.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

philosopher Galen Strawson, the denial of consciousness "is surely the strangest thing that has ever happened in the whole history of human thought." It shows "that the power of human credulity is unlimited, that the capacity of human minds to be gripped by theory, by faith, is truly unbounded." It reveals "the deepest irrationality of the human mind.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

there is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

Another possible conclusion was expressed by George Bernard Shaw, also about fifty years ago, when he wrote that the average person today is about as credulous as was the average person in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, people believed in the authority of their religion, no matter what. Today, we believe in the authority of our science, no matter what.

you didn't know enough to distrust others

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be untrue, and have wilfully encouraged the well-meaning but credulous foreign observer to accept it. What is worse, they have fallen in love with this image, and can no longer accept that it is untrue.

The same people who believe that all-powerful modern truism that "Image is Everything," also believe everything they read in Vanity Fair.

Today, citizens were at once less trusting and more credulous. Many had swallowed lies of vast proportion.