Gullibility Quotes
The best sayings about Gullibility that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
-
He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.
→ -
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
→ -
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes, trained not to think for themselves, will swallow any egregious rot, provided it is dressed up with long words and an affectation of objectivity to make it sound scientific.
→ -
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.
→ -
What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.
→ -
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.
→ -
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.
→ -
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
→ -
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 infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?
→ -
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
→ -
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.
→ -
When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.
→ -
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.
→ -
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 advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.
→ -
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.
→ -
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 like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
→ -
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
→ -
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.
→ -
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
→ -
There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.
→ -
Never underestimate the gullibility of large pools of money.
→ -
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.
→ -
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.
→ -
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
→ -
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
→ -
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.
→ -
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.
→ -
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she begins identifying what one might called "philosophical friends," - people with whom one could seriously examine our thought about God through listening to each other, reading important and useful books together and trying to think for oneself while familiarizing oneself with the ideas of some of the world's great thinkers. Cultivate openness without gullibility and skepticism without cynicism.
→ -
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
→ -
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 about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.
→
Top Authors
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
David Wenham Actor -
Dean Cain Actor -
Derek Luke Actor -
Dominic Cooper Actor -
Dawn Olivieri Actress -
Devin Hester American football player -
Dean Alford American Politician
-
Dennis Skinner British Politician -
Denise Coates Businesswoman -
Deroy Murdock Columnist -
Denis Villeneuve Film director -
Dick Cavett Host -
Diophantus Mathematician -
DeeDee Trotter Olympic athlete -
David Yonggi Cho Pastor -
Deb Matthews Politician -
Derek Hough Professional Dancer -
Doc Bundy Race car driver -
Dessa Darling Rapper -
Dido Armstrong Singer-songwriter -
Djibril Cisse Soccer player -
Dianne Holum Speed Skater -
Dennis Banks Teacher -
Diana Ossana Writer
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Gullibility!