The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity,… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
