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
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 would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;… — Thomas Paine 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
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not much more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
SILENCE: A State Where Almost NO SOUND Is Made. The Thoughts You Always Want To AVOID Are HEARD in The Silence. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
As long as you trust in everything the world tells you, you can't make up your own mind about what's right or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“In the controversy that followed the prince's remarks, his most staunch defender was professor John Taylor, a scholar whose work I had… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
