“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift.… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she… — Lionel Shriver 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
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
“Let us not be content with merely ‘formatting’ generations, but instead, focus on cultivating and enlightening them, ensuring independent thinking where acceptance… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
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