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When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child...

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youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Both [P. T.] Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one e...

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Carl SaganBroca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than peop...

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We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any...

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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...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose tou...

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

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will...

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No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents...

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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been ap...

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Fame is proof that people are gullible.