Quotes on gullibility

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

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You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.

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A little doubt is better than total credulity Abu'l-Ala' al-Ma'arri

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You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

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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 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.

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