It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

It is easier to surprise than to remember.

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

The more he didn’t know, she reasoned, the easier he would be to fool.

It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious.

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious - that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.

Sometimes it's easier to change belief systems than to change the rules.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

It was always easier to screw up somebody else’s spell than it was to cast one yourself. That was one of the many small unfairnesses of magic.

— It is easier to govern others than to prevent being governed.

Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.