Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
“Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.” — Oliver Hardy Copy Share Image
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“what? people exploit your gullibility? let them. remember, the more people cut off leaves of a tree, the much faster it grows.” — Pravin Gupta Copy Share Image
if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything. — Irene Dunne Copy Share Image
“Voting is proof that gullibility has been certified as a public virtue.” — ABifarelli Copy Share Image
the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay. — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
“That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
“Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“If you are inherently a good guy, which I think I am, you instinctively want to help people even before you know… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“You’d be surprised what people will accept once you insist two or three times running that they have seen what you tell… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
“You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
