Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte 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
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. — Anonymous 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
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. — Paul Krugman 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
“Voting is proof that gullibility has been certified as a public virtue.” — ABifarelli 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
![“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace"…” quote by Enoch Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/enoch-powell-13156_betrayal_i-do-here-in-the-most-solemn-and-bitter_1781216.jpg)
