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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. -- Mason Cooley
I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible. -- Lana Turner
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say. -- James Hansen
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
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. -- Tia Carrere
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction. -- Sylvester Stallone
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. -- Thomas Sowell
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. -- Robert E. Sherwood
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. -- Gavyn Davies
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? -- Keith Henson
I'm gullible. -- Corey Feldman
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say. -- Colin Trevorrow
Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue. -- P. T. Barnum
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. -- Michael Moore
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. -- E. B. White
Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything. -- Jef I. Richards
We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth. -- Keri Hilson
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. -- Cindy Sherman
The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth. -- Bill Maher
People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels. -- Charles Fort
[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. -- Thomas Sowell
Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture. -- Camille Paglia
Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open. -- David Spade
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is. -- Charley Reese
We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap. -- Walter Kirn
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency). -- Tariq Ramadan
It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. -- Kevin Mitnick
Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away. -- Monica Raymund
As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic. -- Jesse L. Martin
A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it. -- Ted Cruz
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.' -- Ray Comfort
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce gullible White reviewers who know less about ghetto life than he. The New York Times has devoted more space to Price's tourist, ghetto writing than to any Black writer in history. -- Ishmael Reed
Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am. -- Carla Gugino
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality. -- George Bernard Shaw
The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust... -- Carl Rogers
Swindlers are notoriously gullible. -- Mason Cooley
Fame is proof that people are gullible. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits. -- Scott Adams
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice. -- Mason Cooley
Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible. -- Laura Schlessinger
An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born. -- Dakota Dawn
The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. -- Kevin Mitnick
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible. -- Janet Morris
As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are. -- Harold B. Lee
Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve. -- Scott Adams
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. -- Ilona Andrews
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. -- Amartya Sen
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar. -- Roger Zelazny
Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them. -- Gertrude Stein
Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right. -- Larry King
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible. -- Thomas Sowell
Mystical references to 'society' and its programs to 'help' may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means isputting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. -- Thomas Sowell
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats -- Thomas Sowell
Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit. -- Mike Corbett
He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world. -- Tom Hayden
Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded. -- Nick Hornby
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious. -- Colin Wilson
The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country. -- Elfriede Jelinek

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