Gullibility Quotes
44 quotes by 42 authors
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
— Aristotle
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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
— Richard Cobden
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
— Helen Keller
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Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,…
— Joseph Conrad
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
— Tryon Edwards
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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
— Ralph Barton Perry
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
— Eric Hoffer
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
— David L. Katz
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A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic…
— Eric Hoffer
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According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their…
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers -…
— Stephen Bayley
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments…
— Greil Marcus
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Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in…
— Barbara Demick
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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular…
— Ferdinand Mount
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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called…
— Abraham Maslow
Who Wrote These Gullibility Quotes
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