The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
The distortions of society today derive from a confusion of wisdom, which is holistic, and knowledge, which is fragmentary; and an inability… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
