Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

— Anonymous

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most…

— Terry Pratchett

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

— Anonymous

“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him;…

— Samuel Butler

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

— Honore de Balzac

“He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new…

— Sinclair Lewis

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

— Walter Bagehot

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

— Bertrand Russell

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

— Calvin Coolidge

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

— Malcolm Gladwell

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge…

— William Wallace

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

— William James

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the…

— Thomas Paine

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

— Vannoccio Biringuccio

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

— Denis Diderot