Gullible Quotes

• [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

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

  Janet Morris

  Tools, Belief, Morality

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.62, Paradise Publishing

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• Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue.

  P. T. Barnum

  People

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• Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

  Scott Adams

  Long, People, Limits

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• People believe what they want to believe.

  Tab Hunter

  Believe, People, Want

  "'Coming Out, What Does That Mean?': A '50s Teen Idol On His Life, Sexuality, and Right to Privacy". Interview with Rich Juzwiak, defamer.gawker.com. October 14, 2015.

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• Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

  E. B. White

  Believe, People, Trust Me

  "Fictional character: Charlotte". "Charlotte's Web", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Men, Honest

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• 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

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• 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

  Lunch, Use, Action

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• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Wrong Things

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• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

  Mason Cooley

  Greed, Lust, Literature

  "City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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• Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Fame, Proof

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• I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

  James Hansen

  Believe, Government, Trying

  "Ratcliffe coal trial: James Hansen gives court a crash course in climate change" by Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2010.

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• I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

  Mason Cooley

  Practice, Principles, Cynicism

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• Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

  Keith Henson

  People, Skins, Stuck

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• 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

  Liars, Lying, Writing

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• 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

  Taken, Skins, Tough Skin

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Heart, Mean, Hands

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• I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

  Lana Turner

  Sick, Damn, Gullibility

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• 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

  Childhood, Possibility, Ends

  "God, Science, and Delusion: A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke". Interview with Matt Cherry, Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 19, No. 2, Spring 1999.

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• 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

  People, Sides, Used

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”, ePenguin

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• Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

  Mason Cooley

  Swindlers, Gullibility

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• 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

  Book, Investing, Making Money

  "Gavyn Davies does the maths". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.

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• 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

  Civilization, People, Pay

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• 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

  Danger, Effects, Jokes

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