#gullibility

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

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#gullibility #honesty #think

Sarcasm will make your tits fall off. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#gullibility #sarcasm #sarcasm

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#every #gap #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