Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this…

— Lydia M. Child

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in…

— Paul Davies

These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in…

— Robertson Davies

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint…

— George Carlin

“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how…

— Carl Sagan

“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them. Anything that…

— Carl Sagan

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents…

— Richard Dawkins

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

— Anonymous

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the…

— Huston Smith

“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look…

— Anthony Powell

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men…

— Christopher Hitchens

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

— Tryon Edwards

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

— Thomas Paine