Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
George CarlinStichwörter: humor doubt reason belief skepticism absurdity credulity evidence gullibility indoctrination invisible
No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: democracy public-opinion gullibility
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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Khaled HosseiniStichwörter: honesty gullibility earnestness
I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: public-opinion gullibility
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: gullibility
Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.
Christopher MooreStichwörter: sarcasm gullibility fool
Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?
Shel SilversteinStichwörter: gullibility siblings hat toilet-plunger
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a 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.
[Letter to James Smith discussing Jefferson's hate of the doctrine of the Christian trinity, December 8 1822]
Stichwörter: reason gullibility absurdities trinity martyrs the-trinity athanasian athanasian-creed trinitarian
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: stupidity credulity gullibility scepticism homeopathy charles-prince-of-wales frauds laurens-van-der-post
In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had last noticed when he gave good reviews to the psychokinetic (or whatever) capacities of the Israeli conjuror and fraud Uri Geller. The heir to the throne seems to possess the ability to surround himself—perhaps by some mysterious ultramagnetic force?—with every moon-faced spoon-bender, shrub-flatterer, and water-diviner within range.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: controversy credulity gullibility scepticism monarchy 2010 british-monarchy british-royal-family charles-prince-of-wales frauds john-g-taylor psychics uri-geller
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