“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
Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
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
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
“One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
I have a plan. It entails leading to a fair deal and relationship with the British. We will be reasonable, but we… — Jean-Claude Juncker 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day. — Isaac Asimov 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
“I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people… — Robert Penn Warren 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
Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
