Top 100 Quotes About Gullible
#1. Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
Keith Henson
#3. Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
E.B. White
#4. Haydn snorts. "Only gullible, lovesick fools spout that mushy crap." Thank the stars that his tone is teasing, because I can sense Logan's patience waning.
"When you find the right girl, I'm so going to make you eat your words. And I'm going to thoroughly enjoy rubbing your nose in it.
Siobhan Davis
#5. I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.
Jef I. Richards
#7. Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.
Mike Corbett
#8. Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
Amartya Sen
#9. No way that was a act. She really is that gullible. She really is dumb as a sack of moondust."
"Yet very sweet."
Eve rolled her eyes toward him. "I think you have to have a penis to get that impression.
J.D. Robb
#10. A lot of people pretend to be. They wear robes and put on airs to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible. But
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.
P. J. O'Rourke
#12. Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
Janet E. Morris
#13. The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.
Scott Adams
#15. Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.
Dakota Dawn
#17. 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
#18. Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity
Frank Wynne
#19. I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.
Roger Zelazny
#21. Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.
Ilona Andrews
#22. There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.
Have a nice day.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#24. Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue.
P.T. Barnum
#26. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
Nikita Khrushchev
#27. [Con] men have long known ... that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.
Thomas Sowell
#28. The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible.
Richard Dawkins
#29. My father once said I was as gullible as a fish. I thought he said edible. I thought he meant I was tasty. The
Sharon Creech
#30. Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.
David Spade
#31. We are all, as Huxley says someplace, Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth, the time to tell it if we believed we did, or an audience so gullible as to accept it.
Neil Postman
#32. Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.
Scott Adams
#33. Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
Camille Paglia
#35. Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are
gullible, anybody can convince them.
Gertrude Stein
#36. Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
Ray Comfort
#37. I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
Lana Turner
#38. The moral is significant: when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything. System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, System 2 is in charge of doubting and unbelieving, but System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy. Indeed,
Daniel Kahneman
#39. An entire gullible nation believed faithfully in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really the Gasman.
Gunter Grass
#40. Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left.
Erika Johansen
#41. The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
#42. The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
Tariq Ramadan
#44. I would be greatly distressed if this book contributed still further to the seduction of the gullible, now cynically exploited by all the media.
Arthur C. Clarke
#45. Facebook this week announced that it's experimenting with a tag that will mark sites such as the Onion, Clickhole and Empire News as satire and, hopefully, alert the millions of gullible people who share information from these sites as truth each week.
Anonymous
#46. Nothing wrong with gullible. How you be happy if not gullible?
Cynthia Kadohata
#47. If others think I am nuts, naive, gullible, and not living in the real world, that's all right, too... I'll gladly stay in what some have called my fictitious world, my happy and peaceful world, a world full of signs of hope.
Ward Foley
#48. We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
Walter Kirn
#49. Oh, please," said Hessler. "It's your standard false duality designed to draw gullible believers into a world of monochromatic enemies and strip away any moral ambiguity - usually utilized by the ruling government to bolster whatever policies it wishes to implement.
Patrick Weekes
#50. 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
#52. W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.
J: Oh, yes, it would be so. They think they know, you see. That's always dangerous.
~Wharton; Jessop
Agatha Christie
#53. Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.
Nick Hornby
#54. What makes you think you can survive as a saint in this world, unless you make it your business to exploit the gullible and greedy?
Anand Neelakantan
#55. The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.
Elfriede Jelinek
#56. The most difficult lesson is not being bitter - that balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#58. I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Tia Carrere
#59. The public is gullible ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.
Bill Maher
#60. Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. But you helped me and Arik. Why would you do that if you really feel that way? (Geary)
What can I say? It's so much more enjoyable to snatch victory from the hands of the gullible. You guys make the most delightful sound of agony when you're betrayed. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. 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
#65. The menace of human trafficking continues to endure only because, there are some heartless men who are taking advantage of the lives and bodies the gullible victims get trapped into.
Sunday Adelaja
#66. It's a mistake to lie to a librarian, you know. Some people assume we're shy and gullible, but we know how to dig up the dirt.
Virginia Lowell
#67. It was clear that he was in love, because he became even more gullible than before.
Mikhail Lermontov
#69. A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
Ted Cruz
#70. To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Robert E. Sherwood
#71. I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
James Hansen
#72. Putin had told Yeltsin that he did not like election campaigns, and now he dismissed campaign promises as unachievable lies told by politicians and denigrated television advertisements as unseemly manipulation of gullible consumers.
Steven Lee Myers
#73. As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are ... "
Admonitions for the Priesthood of God", Ensign, Jan 1973
Harold B. Lee
#74. Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot ... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.
Monica Raymund
#75. Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections for violence and domination. When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose, or finds it strangely attractive.
Robert Galbraith
#76. They believe Miles can read it," she said. "Good grief. They must be completely illiterate
or desperately gullible
or
"
"French," said Mr Carsington.
Loretta Chase
#77. Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Mason Cooley
#78. She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.
Wendy Corsi Staub
#79. to leaders - people are emotional and you can take them for a ride as long as they continue to be gullible
Anno Nomius
#80. Often, men who would never think of lying in the workplace lie constantly in intimate relationships. This seems to be especially the case for heterosexual men who see women as gullible.
Bell Hooks
#81. 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
#82. Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce gullible White reviewers who know less about ghetto life than he. The New York Times has devoted more space to Price's tourist, ghetto writing than to any Black writer in history.
Ishmael Reed
#83. Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible.
John Updike
#84. As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.
Jesse L. Martin
#85. Cordone, delighted with himself for swindling the gullible Indians out of a fortune in pearls, stood at the railing of his ship smiling down at the pursuers. He was about to order his soldiers to fire upon the Indians when he was struck in the chest by an arrow. He dropped to the deck.
W.C. Jameson
#86. You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
Holly Black
#87. It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.
Kevin Mitnick
#88. 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
#89. What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.
Bill McKibben
#90. Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.
Wynne Channing
#91. Shelby is so gullible; she believes every word I say to her, as if it is so easy just to believe the best in people.
Jillian Cantor
#92. 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.
Cindy Sherman
#93. Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
Thomas Sowell
#94. (there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist),
Robert Barnard
#95. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.
Kevin Mitnick
#96. Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible.
Joe Hill
#97. 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
#98. What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.
Roy Conli
#99. We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
Keri Hilson
#100. 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
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