The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.” — Oliver Hardy 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
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. — David L. Katz 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
