“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Variant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes

“It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”
Moiraine Damodred
(15 October 1993)
“I suppose […] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”
Source: Heir to the Shadows

“There are more fools in the world than there are people.”
As quoted in One Big Fib : The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada (2003) by Owen Platt, p. 37

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 129