Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

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

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

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.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?