Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue. — P. T. Barnum
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards
When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow. — Barbara Mertz
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. — Calvin Coolidge
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. — Frances Wright
I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible. — Lana Turner
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice. — Mason Cooley
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. — Richard Cobden
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. — E. B. White
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent. — Eula Biss
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. — Michael Moore
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool. — Josh Billings
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. — Eric Hoffer
The most positive men are the most credulous. — Jonathan Swift
Short Gullibility Quotes
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out. — Groucho Marx
Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible. — Laura Schlessinger
the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay. — Marie de Gournay
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day. — Isaac Asimov
The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. — Anthony Jeselnik
if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything. — Irene Dunne
Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve. — Scott Adams
Never underestimate the gullibility of large pools of money. — David F. Swensen
Credulity is the sister of innocence. — Fanny Burney
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw
Gullibility Image Quotes
Good Quotes
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
What Are Wise Quotes
You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today! — Paul Washer
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu
No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly. That’s what these researchers discovered. The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there. — James Nestor
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession. — Lao Tzu
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. — Isaac Newton
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. — Epictetus
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. — Louis L'Amour
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck. — Thomas Jefferson
I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable. — Enoch Powell
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 cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing — Abraham Maslow
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction. — Sylvester Stallone
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. — Gavyn Davies
People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels. — Charles Fort
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is. — Charley Reese
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
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. — Thomas Sowell
The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over. — Paul Craig Roberts
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. — Chris Van Allsburg
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her. — Lionel Shriver
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
So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling. — Doug Casey
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in. — Cindy Sherman
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious. — Colin Wilson
He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world. — Tom Hayden
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. — David L. Katz
Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right. — Larry King
Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not. — Mason Cooley
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, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. — Joseph Conrad
Swindlers are notoriously gullible. — Mason Cooley
How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation. — Douglas Hofstadter
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