#gullibility

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#book #characteristics #cherish #childlike #excited

You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#belief #credibility #fantasy #gullibility #humor

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? ↗

— Keith Henson

#could #gullibility #gullible #less #people

I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#gullibility #skepticism #men

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. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#gullibility #humanity #power #religion #sheep

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#brain

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. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#gullibility #mood #rationality #intuition

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. ↗

— E.B. White

#humor #insidious #humor

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#gullibility #public-opinion #intelligence

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#hatred #love #love