Vilfredo Pareto Quotes

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age.

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.