Gullibility Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Swindlers are notoriously gullible.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gullibility Gullible Swindlers
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Once Count Victor Lustig, swindler par excellence, had sold dozens of suckers around the country a phony box with which he claimed to be… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption. — Warren Murphy Copy Share Image
In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
