Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Gullibility

"Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The green horn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life." - G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Gullibility isn’t a necessary consequence of being open-minded - but enlightenment is." - Lyall Watson

"With an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion." - Nadine Gordimer

"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap." - Richard Cobden

"No instance exists of a person’s writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth." - Thomas Jefferson