Quotes About Credulity

It is not so much by any power inherent in himself that the magician works, as by the ductility of that material of gaping credulity upon which he operates.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

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

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

People named Jon tend to be highly susceptible to false information online and tend to believe whatever already lines up with their worldview.

Wir glauben nur das, was wir sehen. Darum glauben wir alles, seit es das Fernsehen gibt.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.

Having never dealt with Frank, Slaght naively trusted him.

Garber always tells the truth. So nobody ever believes him.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Amazing the rubbish idiots will believe if you shout it loudly enough.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

I do have that bad habit, so female, of taking people at their word.

Tell me. I'll believe it. I always believe anything anyone tells about myself – don't you?

In reply to an inquiry, it was explained that a satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity.

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.