The essence of religion is one hundred percent credulity, which is why its total lack of credibility does religion no harm. — Steve Fowler 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
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. — Joseph Joubert 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
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
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke 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
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
“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
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
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
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them… — George Carlin 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
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
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
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
“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
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
“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of naiveté if the accompanying… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
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
“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by… — 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
“There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It might make me seem more human at this point, which is to say more sympathetic, if I were to declare that… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
![“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place, they were educated to believe it, and they would have believed anything else in the same manner . There are…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef2/thomas-paine-267_absurdity_that-many-good-men-have-believed-this-st_2075778.jpg)
