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
“Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.” — Oliver Hardy 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
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
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte 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
“...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs… — Nadine Gordimer 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
“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
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
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
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
