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  1. 🎩🤖 Ah, the classic "AI will fool you" diatribe – because clearly, #Louwrentius has cracked the code on human gullibility! If only #Feynman were here to remind us that we're not "fooling ourselves" but rather being entertained by our own #digital #puppets. 🧠🎭
    louwrentius.com/i-think-you-mi #AI #gullibility #entertainment #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🎩🤖 Ah, the classic "AI will fool you" diatribe – because clearly, #Louwrentius has cracked the code on human gullibility! If only #Feynman were here to remind us that we're not "fooling ourselves" but rather being entertained by our own #digital #puppets. 🧠🎭
    louwrentius.com/i-think-you-mi #AI #gullibility #entertainment #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 🎩🤖 Ah, the classic "AI will fool you" diatribe – because clearly, #Louwrentius has cracked the code on human gullibility! If only #Feynman were here to remind us that we're not "fooling ourselves" but rather being entertained by our own #digital #puppets. 🧠🎭
    louwrentius.com/i-think-you-mi #AI #gullibility #entertainment #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🎩🤖 Ah, the classic "AI will fool you" diatribe – because clearly, #Louwrentius has cracked the code on human gullibility! If only #Feynman were here to remind us that we're not "fooling ourselves" but rather being entertained by our own #digital #puppets. 🧠🎭
    louwrentius.com/i-think-you-mi #AI #gullibility #entertainment #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🎩🤖 Ah, the classic "AI will fool you" diatribe – because clearly, #Louwrentius has cracked the code on human gullibility! If only #Feynman were here to remind us that we're not "fooling ourselves" but rather being entertained by our own #digital #puppets. 🧠🎭
    louwrentius.com/i-think-you-mi #AI #gullibility #entertainment #HackerNews #ngated

  6. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth

  7. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth

  8. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth

  9. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth

  10. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth

  11. #MissKitty marvel's at #myth making & #gullibility capabilities of Americans & stands back in horrified awe. Give me the explanation how #yogurt became identified as #diet food? 😹😹😹 Then they realized so they made it low fat, ruined it, & used the fat for other products. Cuz we're fat in the head.

  12. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade

  13. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade

  14. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade

  15. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade

  16. Ah yes, the brilliant minds at Nature have discovered the ultimate test of #human gullibility: make-believe maladies and AI-induced #panic 🤖💉. Clearly, the future of #science involves inventing diseases because curing real ones would be far too pedestrian! 🧐👏
    nature.com/articles/d41586-026 #AI #Gullibility #Innovation #Make #Believe #HackerNews #ngated

  17. Ah yes, the brilliant minds at Nature have discovered the ultimate test of #human gullibility: make-believe maladies and AI-induced #panic 🤖💉. Clearly, the future of #science involves inventing diseases because curing real ones would be far too pedestrian! 🧐👏
    nature.com/articles/d41586-026 #AI #Gullibility #Innovation #Make #Believe #HackerNews #ngated

  18. Ah yes, the brilliant minds at Nature have discovered the ultimate test of #human gullibility: make-believe maladies and AI-induced #panic 🤖💉. Clearly, the future of #science involves inventing diseases because curing real ones would be far too pedestrian! 🧐👏
    nature.com/articles/d41586-026 #AI #Gullibility #Innovation #Make #Believe #HackerNews #ngated

  19. Ah yes, the brilliant minds at Nature have discovered the ultimate test of #human gullibility: make-believe maladies and AI-induced #panic 🤖💉. Clearly, the future of #science involves inventing diseases because curing real ones would be far too pedestrian! 🧐👏
    nature.com/articles/d41586-026 #AI #Gullibility #Innovation #Make #Believe #HackerNews #ngated

  20. Ah yes, the brilliant minds at Nature have discovered the ultimate test of #human gullibility: make-believe maladies and AI-induced #panic 🤖💉. Clearly, the future of #science involves inventing diseases because curing real ones would be far too pedestrian! 🧐👏
    nature.com/articles/d41586-026 #AI #Gullibility #Innovation #Make #Believe #HackerNews #ngated

  21. "Indeed, documentation is often taken as further evidence of conspiracy, while assertion (that this or that will 'detoxify' your blood or that COVID deaths were exaggerated) is taken as gospel….

    Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism that 'a mixture of gullibility and cynicism is prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements.'”

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /5

  22. "Indeed, documentation is often taken as further evidence of conspiracy, while assertion (that this or that will 'detoxify' your blood or that COVID deaths were exaggerated) is taken as gospel….

    Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism that 'a mixture of gullibility and cynicism is prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements.'”

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /5

  23. "Indeed, documentation is often taken as further evidence of conspiracy, while assertion (that this or that will 'detoxify' your blood or that COVID deaths were exaggerated) is taken as gospel….

    Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism that 'a mixture of gullibility and cynicism is prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements.'”

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /5

  24. "Indeed, documentation is often taken as further evidence of conspiracy, while assertion (that this or that will 'detoxify' your blood or that COVID deaths were exaggerated) is taken as gospel….

    Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism that 'a mixture of gullibility and cynicism is prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements.'”

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /5

  25. "Indeed, documentation is often taken as further evidence of conspiracy, while assertion (that this or that will 'detoxify' your blood or that COVID deaths were exaggerated) is taken as gospel….

    Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism that 'a mixture of gullibility and cynicism is prevalent in all ranks of totalitarian movements.'”

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /5

  26. "The cynicism is highly selective: Gullicists see everyone’s hidden motives—except when they don’t. They are able to reject any claim rooted in actual evidence—whether in science, politics, or history—while embracing the most breathtakingly absurd assertions on the same topics."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /4

  27. "The cynicism is highly selective: Gullicists see everyone’s hidden motives—except when they don’t. They are able to reject any claim rooted in actual evidence—whether in science, politics, or history—while embracing the most breathtakingly absurd assertions on the same topics."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /4

  28. "The cynicism is highly selective: Gullicists see everyone’s hidden motives—except when they don’t. They are able to reject any claim rooted in actual evidence—whether in science, politics, or history—while embracing the most breathtakingly absurd assertions on the same topics."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /4

  29. "The cynicism is highly selective: Gullicists see everyone’s hidden motives—except when they don’t. They are able to reject any claim rooted in actual evidence—whether in science, politics, or history—while embracing the most breathtakingly absurd assertions on the same topics."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /4

  30. "The cynicism is highly selective: Gullicists see everyone’s hidden motives—except when they don’t. They are able to reject any claim rooted in actual evidence—whether in science, politics, or history—while embracing the most breathtakingly absurd assertions on the same topics."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /4

  31. "Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...

    The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /3

  32. "Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...

    The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /3

  33. "Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...

    The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /3

  34. "Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...

    The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /3

  35. "Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...

    The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
    /3

  36. "The coronavirus wasn’t the only epidemic to hit the United States in the past decade. Americans are also facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism—gullicism, if you need a portmanteau—that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods, one where facts are drowned out by a cacophony of extremely loud and wrong voices."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid
    /2

  37. "The coronavirus wasn’t the only epidemic to hit the United States in the past decade. Americans are also facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism—gullicism, if you need a portmanteau—that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods, one where facts are drowned out by a cacophony of extremely loud and wrong voices."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid
    /2

  38. "The coronavirus wasn’t the only epidemic to hit the United States in the past decade. Americans are also facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism—gullicism, if you need a portmanteau—that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods, one where facts are drowned out by a cacophony of extremely loud and wrong voices."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid
    /2

  39. "The coronavirus wasn’t the only epidemic to hit the United States in the past decade. Americans are also facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism—gullicism, if you need a portmanteau—that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods, one where facts are drowned out by a cacophony of extremely loud and wrong voices."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid
    /2

  40. The coronavirus wasn’t the only epidemic to hit the United States in the past decade. Americans are also facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism—gullicism, if you need a portmanteau—that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods, one where facts are drowned out by a cacophony of extremely loud and wrong voices."

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation
    /2

  41. Noting that "to be an anti-vaxxer, one must be simultaneously credulous and distrustful—credulous of hucksters, and distrustful about empiricism," Adam Serwer coins the term "gullicist" to describe many Americans of the post-Covid Trump era — entirely skeptical of science, documentation, research, entirely gullible when it comes to hucksters and charlatans peddling nonsense.

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism
    /1

    theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/

  42. Noting that "to be an anti-vaxxer, one must be simultaneously credulous and distrustful—credulous of hucksters, and distrustful about empiricism," Adam Serwer coins the term "gullicist" to describe many Americans of the post-Covid Trump era — entirely skeptical of science, documentation, research, entirely gullible when it comes to hucksters and charlatans peddling nonsense.

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism
    /1

    theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/

  43. Noting that "to be an anti-vaxxer, one must be simultaneously credulous and distrustful—credulous of hucksters, and distrustful about empiricism," Adam Serwer coins the term "gullicist" to describe many Americans of the post-Covid Trump era — entirely skeptical of science, documentation, research, entirely gullible when it comes to hucksters and charlatans peddling nonsense.

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism
    /1

    theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/

  44. Noting that "to be an anti-vaxxer, one must be simultaneously credulous and distrustful—credulous of hucksters, and distrustful about empiricism," Adam Serwer coins the term "gullicist" to describe many Americans of the post-Covid Trump era — entirely skeptical of science, documentation, research, entirely gullible when it comes to hucksters and charlatans peddling nonsense.

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism
    /1

    theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/

  45. Noting that "to be an anti-vaxxer, one must be simultaneously credulous and distrustful—credulous of hucksters, and distrustful about empiricism," Adam Serwer coins the term "gullicist" to describe many Americans of the post-Covid Trump era — entirely skeptical of science, documentation, research, entirely gullible when it comes to hucksters and charlatans peddling nonsense.

    #gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism
    /1

    theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/

  46. What do ’s “red mean for ? : Medium

    and Interact More Often Than Thought, in Mutual , Study Suggests : Misc

    Why people embrace theories: it’s about , not : Misc

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  47. What do #JWST’s “red #Monster#Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium

    #Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc

    Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc

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  48. What do #JWST’s “red #Monster#Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium

    #Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc

    Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc

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  49. What do #JWST’s “red #Monster#Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium

    #Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc

    Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc

    Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

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  50. What do #JWST’s “red #Monster#Galaxies mean for #Cosmology? : Medium

    #Whales and #Dolphins Interact More Often Than #Scientists Thought, #Engaging in Mutual #Play, Study Suggests : Misc

    Why people embrace #Conspiracy theories: it’s about #Community, not #Gullibility : Misc

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  51. A quotation from Moliere

    ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
       So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
     
    [Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
    Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself

  52. A quotation from Moliere

    ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
       So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
     
    [Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
    Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself

  53. A quotation from Moliere

    ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
       So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
     
    [Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
    Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself

  54. A quotation from Will Rogers

    We are a good natured bunch of saps in this country. […] When a bank fails, we let the guy go start another one.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1930-06-30), “Daily Telegram: Mr. Rogers Virtually Agrees with Barnum’s Famous View,” No. 1226

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76564/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #America #bank #bankruptcy #business #failure #finance #freshstart #gullibility #sap #secondchance

  55. A quotation from Will Rogers

    We are a good natured bunch of saps in this country. […] When a bank fails, we let the guy go start another one.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1930-06-30), “Daily Telegram: Mr. Rogers Virtually Agrees with Barnum’s Famous View,” No. 1226

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76564/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #America #bank #bankruptcy #business #failure #finance #freshstart #gullibility #sap #secondchance

  56. A quotation from Will Rogers

    We are a good natured bunch of saps in this country. […] When a bank fails, we let the guy go start another one.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1930-06-30), “Daily Telegram: Mr. Rogers Virtually Agrees with Barnum’s Famous View,” No. 1226

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76564/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #America #bank #bankruptcy #business #failure #finance #freshstart #gullibility #sap #secondchance

  57. Trump said about Putin: “I think he’ll keep his word.”

    Julia Davis remembered that Stalin said about Hitler: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
    That was before Hitler's armies invaded Russia. #history #gullibility #PutinsPuppet

  58. Trump said about Putin: “I think he’ll keep his word.”

    Julia Davis remembered that Stalin said about Hitler: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
    That was before Hitler's armies invaded Russia. #history #gullibility #PutinsPuppet

  59. Trump said about Putin: “I think he’ll keep his word.”

    Julia Davis remembered that Stalin said about Hitler: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
    That was before Hitler's armies invaded Russia. #history #gullibility #PutinsPuppet

  60. Trump said about Putin: “I think he’ll keep his word.”

    Julia Davis remembered that Stalin said about Hitler: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
    That was before Hitler's armies invaded Russia. #history #gullibility #PutinsPuppet