Quotes About Credulity

The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients.

Demon possession strains the boundaries of credulity, given the sheer number of times it seems to happen. One would really hope demons had better things to do with their time.

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.

If somebody comes on TV and says everything is great and wonderful, you don't believe it, you say they're blowing smoke up your butt. You demand proof. But if one second later, some guy comes on and says everything is falling apart, you automatically believe it, no questions asked.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

To the child, the savage, and the Wall Street operator everything seems possible, hence their credulity.

Pascal was of the opinion that "one was well-minded to understand holy writ when one hated oneself."20 There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity

I told him a story, Calista. People will follow you anywhere if you tell them a tale they desperately want to believe. It's astonishing, really, how gullible even the most skeptical person can be if he or she wants to believe.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

many experts assert that this may be the most gullible and easy-to-deceive generation that has ever lived.

there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist)