gullible

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind.

Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . __s a pious lie

If a man, who says he loves you, won__ tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.

The most difficult lesson is not being bitter__hat balancing you need to do so you don't become bitter, even as you cease being gullible.

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant expert. You have a degree? Well, I did a Google search!

It's called the Infinity Effect.

interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).In the foreword to your book you mention a book titled Satan__ Silence was the catalyst for your research. Tell us about that. Cheit: Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker solidified the witch-hunt narrative in their 1995 book, Satan__ Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, which included some of these cases. I was initially skeptical of the book__ argument for personal reasons. It seemed implausible to me that we had overreacted to child abuse because everything in my own personal history said we hadn__. When I read the book closely, my skepticism increased. Satan__ Silence has been widely reviewed as meticulously researched. As someone with legal training, I looked for how many citations referred to the trial transcripts. The answer was almost none. Readers were also persuaded by long list of [presumably innocent] convicted sex offenders to whom they dedicated the book. If I__ dedicating a book to fifty-four people, all of whom I think have been falsely convicted, I__ going to mention every one of these cases somewhere in the book. Most weren__ mentioned at all beyond that dedication. The witch-hunt narrative is so sparsely documented that it__ shocking.

Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, __ome on down!_ But standing at the bottom looking up, it__ finally dawned on me that it__ not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it__ the fact that I accepted them.