Naive Belief Quotes

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

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

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

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

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

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

At that time I believed in the Führer principle because to me it meant that the best one should be the leader. If the leader is good and responsible, then the government is good.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that I don't. I still believe that nothing truly bad can ever happen if my mother is around. I know it's not true. But still. It is true.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.