I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct — Kathryn Schulz 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
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad 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
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most… — Stephen Bayley 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
Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a… — Thomas Jefferson 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 mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd 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
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others,… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for… — Terence McKenna 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
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
Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we… — John Brunner 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
The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called… — Thomas Paine 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
“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
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among… — Paul Johnson 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
“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
“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
