Quotes About Credulity

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

the rumor you most want to believe is the rumor you should be most skeptical of.

Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.

Em resumo, há nos homens, quando eles se deixam guiar pelos olhos, uma tal credulidade da qual sua majestosa sabedoria não suspeita, fazendo que os mais avisados dentre eles sejam frequentemente enganados por nós.

Fools remain glued to the idiot box called TV for hearing often only news and even parroting the same before others to spread it as own views.

People who can apply own brain meager could easily believe in any media publicized figure.

The majority of people is not often right because the history has witnessed many cases in which masses have been fooled by a person who flew by night.

There are many people who easily believe a concocted story as if the counterfeit money can be made by a person with a sugarcane juice machine and not done by a mammoth machinery.

We are in a world where fake news are created and made a trend to either protect another fake news or promote a product/person and fools in billions accept it within a second.

When the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything.

El que dice superstición dice credulidad –continuó Decambrais, lanzado–. El que dice credulidad dice manipulación, y el que dice manipulación dice desastre. Ésa es la plaga que azota a la humanidad, ha producido más muertos que todas las pestes juntas.

Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

The success of the lie depends a great deal upon how much the hearer wishes to believe it," she replied.

Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

You'd be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.

Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.

She wasn't sure if they were telling her the truth; sometimes they told her things to see if she was gullible enough to believe them.

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

Dit is de pest met mensen: als ze eenmaal geloven bestaat het gevaar dat ze alles aannemen.

your scepticism has defeated itself and become a monstrous credulity…