Arthur Guiterman Quotes

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.