credulousness Quotes

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

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

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

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

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.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

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.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?

One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

I accept what people say. I don't have time to dissect it.

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

Take you me for a sponge?

Women are proverbially credulous.