Gullibility Quote by Barbara Mertz Download Open image “Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.” — Barbara Mertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gullibility Martyrdom Results Sacrifice
It's not - martyrdom is not something that is common in the Western world, but in the Middle East, in the Orient, and in… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything -… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens 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 him the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte 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 will also… — Jean-Claude Juncker 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 represented by… — Samuel Hopkins Adams 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
Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both… — J. M. Coetzee 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 is in… — Erik Pevernagie 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 a good… — Frances Wright 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 the paint… — George Carlin Copy Share Image