{"quotes":[{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"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.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["democracy","gullibility","public-opinion"],"id":22332,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.","author":"Charles Fort","tags":["belief","charles-fort","gullibility","philosophy","psychology"],"id":24628,"author_id":"Charles+Fort"},{"text":"I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.","author":"Malcolm Muggeridge","tags":["closed-mindedness","credulity","darwin","evolution","gullibility","joke","neo-darwinism","posterity","theory-of-evolution"],"id":38119,"author_id":"Malcolm+Muggeridge"},{"text":"Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["action","ity","experimentation","gullibility","hearing","inaction","learning","lesson","lessons","listening","practice","teaching","truth","understanding"],"id":70533,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["gullibility","hatred","love"],"id":129736,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery. Both fear and superstition are forms of a contagious disease.The ignorance of man produced natural fears of the elements of nature. What he could not understand he attributed to malevolent spirits whose primary purpose was to punish and harm him. Under this spell it seems almost incredible that he ever advanced from his state of primitive ignorance.His fears produced such fantastic monsters of the air that it was first necessary to relieve his tormented mind of these terrifying myths of ghosts and gods before he was able to acquire even the simplest rudiments of knowledge.Man's ignorance and fears made him an easy prey of priests. His gullibility was such that he believed everything he was told. He soon became a slave to these liars and hypocrites.","author":"Joseph Lewis","tags":["control","deceit","education","fear","gullibility","hypocrites","ignorance","liars","superstition"],"id":141203,"author_id":"Joseph+Lewis"},{"text":"Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.","author":"E.B. White","tags":["gullibility","humor","insidious"],"id":187486,"author_id":"E.B.+White"},{"text":"Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me had clearly gained near-universal acceptance. I knew then that, regardless of what transpired here, my home was now lost to me. It wasn’t just that these people would never accept me, more that I would never forgive their gullibility.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["gullibility","lies","patriotism","propaganda"],"id":201702,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["fool","gullibility","sarcasm"],"id":215173,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}