psychological susceptibility Quotes

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.