Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.
I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles
The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.
Weakness is provocation.
Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.
Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.
The more you are in public life, the more you wonder at the credulity of the average human being.
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
The people who are most susceptible to hypnosis - the rugger bugger types - were also the ones who intimidated me most at school, so on an unconscious level I suppose I'm turning the tables on them.
Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.
We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
I'm impressionable, that's for sure.
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
I don't really like being vulnerable.
All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.
I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.
the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
