50 Quotes About Gullibility
- Author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Nature wants to propogate our race. What else would it want. We, however, are vain and gullible enough to convince ourselves that it has our happiness in mind.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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A lie, like a pill, is easier to swallow when you don't think about it.
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- Author Lionel Shriver
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You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.
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- Author Terry Eagleton
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Goodness in the form of innocence can render you a pray to others. In a predatory world , it is not always easy to distinguish virtue from guillibility. This is one reason why there is something quaint as well as imposing about the word 'virtue'.
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- Author R.Patient
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Nationalism, tribalism & patriotism are the playthings of the ignorant and abhorrent.
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- Author Carl Sagan
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Both Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public. The remark has worldwide application. But the lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking.
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- Author Edward M. Wolfe
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It's called the Infinity Effect.
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- Author Malcolm Muggeridge
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I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
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- Author Oliver Hardy
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Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.
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