Quotes about Gullibility
Christian faith isn't a general religious awareness. Nor is it the ability to believe several unlikely propositions. It is certainly not a kind of gullibility which would put us out of touch with any genuine reality. It is the faith which hears the story of Jesus, including the announcement that he is the world's true Lord, and responds from the heart with a surge of grateful love that says: "Yes. Jesus is Lord.
— NT Wright
The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.
— Proverbs 14:15
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
— Will Rogers
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
— AW Tozer
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
— GK Chesterton
Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with baloney detection, critical thinking, and the scientific method. Gullibility kills.
— Carl Sagan
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
— Mark Twain
The call for intelligence is a call for openmindedness, sound judgment, and love for truth. It is a call for men to rise above the stagnation of closedmindedness and the paralysis of gullibility.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we believe miracles cannot happen today but happened to our distant ancestors, what we really seem to be saying is not that miracles happened back then but, rather, that all those people back then were naive enough to believe they happened. It is to say that miracles never happened, but gullible people thought they did.
— Eric Metaxas
This was a religious problem, my father felt; people can want to be deceived. Do not deceive, the Kotzker rebbe insisted, and that also means do not deceive oneself by being gullible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
— George Bernard Shaw