The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“My lack of questioning does not come from gullibility or naivety, rather, I piece together the reality by discerning intent.” — Aegelis Copy Share Image
Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I have a plan. It entails leading to a fair deal and relationship with the British. We will be reasonable, but we… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Oh, I say I have an ocelot and it’s a joke, but I’ve had so many news programs in this country say,… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
“Cody was a classic résumé-bloater, a braggart impresario who prospered by exploiting the gullibility of the American people, most of whom are… — Rinker Buck Copy Share Image
“The real easy fix to gullibility is to realize and tell yourself every day that there is so much in this life… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image