Gullibility Quotes

44 Gullibility quotes by 42 unique authors

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. — Richard Cobden
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
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
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
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Ralph Barton Perry
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. — Eric Hoffer
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. — David L. Katz
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are… — J M Coetzee
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people… — Tony Kushner
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. — Paul Krugman

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