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For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap. -- Richard Cobden
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds? -- Christopher Hitchens
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life. -- Helen Keller
Swindlers are notoriously gullible. -- Mason Cooley
credulity is the sister of innocence ... -- Fanny Burney
When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow. -- Barbara Mertz
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. -- Aristotle
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. -- Eric Hoffer
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. -- Tryon Edwards
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. -- Thomas Jefferson
Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. -- E. B. White
I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible. -- Lana Turner
the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay. -- Marie de Gournay
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. -- Khaled Hosseini
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off. -- David L. Katz
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. -- Ralph Barton Perry
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? -- Keith Henson
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. -- Michael Moore
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book. -- Phil Foglio
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich. -- Stephen Bayley
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. -- Lionel Shriver
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away. -- Walter Kirn
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing -- Abraham Maslow
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are. -- Ferdinand Mount
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck. -- Thomas Jefferson
Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility. -- Barbara Mertz
Never underestimate the gullibility of large pools of money. -- David F. Swensen
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. -- Jamie Whyte
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day. -- Isaac Asimov
The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people. -- Bill Maher
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. -- Paul Krugman
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it. -- Wendy Kaminer
Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility? -- Umberto Eco
Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both are forms of scapegoating, neither accomplishes anything. -- J. M. Coetzee
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people. -- Tony Kushner

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