Gullibility Quotes - Page 3

• Hay profesores de ciencias que afirman que enseñan "un sano escepticismo". No es así. Enseñan una profunda credulidad, y sus incautos, entrenados para no pensar por sí mismos, se tragarán cualquier podredumbre atroz, siempre que esté aderezada con palabras largas y una afectación de objetividad para que suene científica.

  Anthony Standen

  Teacher, Science, Thinking

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Vivimos rodeados de una apelación sistemática a un mundo de ensueño que toda realidad madura y científica rechazaría. Anunciamos, literalmente, nuestro compromiso con la inmadurez, la mendacidad y una profunda credulidad. Es como el sello distintivo de la cultura. Y se justifica por ser económicamente indispensable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Dream, Commitment, Reality

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Drug, Important

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• Es propio de la naturaleza humana querer creer en la magia del mago, pero también volverse contra él y despreciarlo en el momento en que comete el más mínimo error que revela sus trucos. Los espectadores se avergüenzan de haberse asombrado tan fácilmente y culpan al artista de su credulidad.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Errors, Wizardry

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.154, Bantam

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• En sus formas más autoritarias, la religión castiga el cuestionamiento y recompensa la credulidad. La fe no es una función de la estupidez, sino una causa frecuente de ella.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Stupidity, Religion, Rewards

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• Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

  Jamie Whyte

  Cynicism, Symptoms, Faculty

  Jamie Whyte (2004). “Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional

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• 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

  Adventure, Keys, Ultimate

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• 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

  Running, People, Essentials

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• The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Believe, Monsters, Doe

  Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

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• Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.

  Albert J. Nock

  Responsibility, Political, Soldier

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 319), 1943.

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• La edad de la credulidad es cada edad que el mundo ha conocido. Los hombres siempre han pasado de lo comprobado, que es limitado y desalentador, a lo dudoso, que es ilimitado y lleno de esperanza para todos.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Thinking, Age

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• I have a plan. It entails leading to a fair deal and relationship with the British. We will be reasonable, but we will also negotiate firmly and without gullibility. I believe we must come to an agreement for the people of Britain and the people on the Continent, but not under exclusively British terms.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Believe, People, Term

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.

  Susan Sontag

  País, Pensamiento, Gente

  Source: ctheory.net

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• 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

  Advertising, Form, Accomplish

  J. M. Coetzee, David Attwell (1992). “Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Century, Meaning Of Christmas, True Meaning

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2011

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• all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Men, Perception

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.39, Rowman Altamira

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• 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

  Men, Tangled, Fool

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• ...en cambio, parece que los negocios -como la pérdida de peso- son un tema en el que la esperanza y el miedo inspiran una credulidad ilimitada.

  Paul Krugman

  Miedo, Pérdida, Inspirar

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• Una de las características que más aprecio de mis amigos es su credulidad infantil, y pasé varios minutos emocionado intentando encontrar este libro.

  Phil Foglio

  Book, Trying, Excited

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• The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Stupidity, Brilliant

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Los remedios de la actualidad son infinitamente variados e infinitamente complacientes. La psicología aplicada, la autosugestión y los caminos reales hacia el aprendizaje o la riqueza nos son recomendados por reformadores amables, aunque no del todo desinteresados. Sistemas simples y fáciles para la disolución de la discordia y la lucha; sistemas simples y fáciles para el desarrollo de la personalidad y el poder. Folletos de consejos sobre "Cómo obtener lo que deseamos", lo cual es imposible; folletos sobre "Visualización", garantizados para hacernos desear lo que obtenemos, lo cual es innoble.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simple, Thinking, Personality

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• La credulidad como rasgo de carácter se fomenta en todos los niños que crecen con una formación religiosa, que invariablemente insiste en la virtud de la fe ciega y en lo pecaminoso de dudar y cuestionar.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Religious, Children, Growing Up

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• In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Block, Lying, Average

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• He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.

  Craig Ferguson

  Dog, Animal, Sheep

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• I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

  Enoch Powell

  Betrayal, Weakness, Depth

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 47), 1999.

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