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title: "185 Credulity Quotes by 122 authors"
description: "Browse 185 Credulity quotes by 122 authors. Discover the best Credulity sayings and thoughts."
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> [Quick believers need broad shoulders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-herbert/quick-believers-need-broad-shoulders/)

[George Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-herbert/)

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> [Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/too-much-doubt-is-better-than-too-much-credulity/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [Love is an affair of credulity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/love-is-an-affair-of-credulity/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-disraeli/the-characteristic-of-the-present-age-is-craving-credulity/)

[Benjamin Disraeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-disraeli/)

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> [Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/suspicion-has-its-dupes-as-well-as-credulity/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

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> [It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/it-is-as-wise-to-moderate-our-belief-as-our-desires/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

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> [Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/between-craft-and-credulity-the-voice-of-reason-is-stifled/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lamb/credulity-is-the-man-s-weakness-but-the-child-s-strength/)

[Charles Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-lamb/)

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> [The essence of religion is one hundred percent credulity, which is why its total lack of credibility does religion no harm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-fowler/the-essence-of-religion-is-one-hundred-percent-credulity-which-is-why/)

[Steve Fowler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-fowler/)

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> [SILENCE: A State Where Almost NO SOUND Is Made. The Thoughts You Always Want To AVOID Are HEARD in The Silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pacifiersucker/silence-a-state-where-almost-no-sound-is-made-the-thoughts-you-always/)

[Pacifiersucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pacifiersucker/)

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> [When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-joubert/when-credulity-comes-from-the-heart-it-does-no-harm-to-the-intellect/)

[Joseph Joubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-joubert/)

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> [Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-richardson/women-are-sometimes-drawn-in-to-believe-against-probability-by-the/)

[Samuel Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-richardson/)

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> [As long as you trust in everything the world tells you, you can't make up your own mind about what's right or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/as-long-as-you-trust-in-everything-the-world-tells-you-you-can-t-make/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-prefer-credulity-to-skepticism-and-cynicism-for-there-is-more/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-greatest-and-saddest-defect-is-not-credulity-but-an-habitual/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/the-credulity-of-dupes-is-as-inexhaustible-as-the-invention-of-knaves/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/we-live-in-a-time-of-twin-credulities-the-hunger-for-the-miraculous/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/nothing-more-strikingly-betrays-the-credulity-of-mankind-than/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-scarrow/it-was-easy-enough-to-invent-theological-sounding-passages-provided/)

[Alex Scarrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-scarrow/)

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> [The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-repplier/the-age-of-credulity-is-every-age-the-world-has-ever-known-men-have/)

[Agnes Repplier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-repplier/)

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> [The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/huston-smith/the-new-age-movement-looks-like-a-mixed-bag-i-see-much-in-it-that-2/)

[Huston Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/huston-smith/)

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> [“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/tell-people-there-s-an-invisible-man-in-the-sky-who-created-the/)

[George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-carlin/)

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> [Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/let-us-not-mock-god-with-metaphor-analogy-sidestepping-transcendence/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

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> [These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/these-matters-require-what-i-think-of-as-the-shakespearean-cast-of/)

[Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/)

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> [A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hoffer/a-peculiar-side-of-credulity-is-that-it-is-often-joined-with-a/)

[Eric Hoffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hoffer/)

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> [Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/faith-always-presented-to-the-mind-the-idea-of-an-abnormal/)

[William Edward Hartpole Lecky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/)

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> [If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-maher/if-we-go-back-to-the-beginning-we-shall-find-that-ignorance-and-fear-2/)

[Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-maher/)

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> [It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/it-is-a-curious-paradox-that-precisely-in-proportion-to-our-own/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-meslier/how-i-suffered-when-i-had-to-preach-to-you-those-pious-lies-that-i/)

[Jean Meslier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-meslier/)

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> [“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/i-have-spoken-of-jonah-and-of-the-story-of-him-and-the-whale-a-fit/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/love-is-an-alchemist-that-can-transmute-poison-into-food-and-a/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/no-one-has-yet-been-found-so-firm-of-mind-and-purpose-as-resolutely/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [ “That many good men have believed this strange fable \[Christianity\], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/that-many-good-men-have-believed-this-strange-fable-christianity-and/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [“In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of naiveté if the accompanying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frithjof-schuon/in-our-day-everyone-wants-to-appear-intelligent-one-would-prefer-to/)

[Frithjof Schuon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frithjof-schuon/)

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> [The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/the-medieval-doctors-of-divinity-who-did-not-pretend-to-settle-how/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/men-would-never-be-superstitious-if-they-could-govern-all-their-3/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells-2/wells-discussing-his-experiences-with-christianity-i-realised-as-if/)

[H.G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells-2/)

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> [“There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hoffer/there-is-apparently-some-connection-between-dissatisfaction-with/)

[Eric Hoffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hoffer/)

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> [“It might make me seem more human at this point, which is to say more sympathetic, if I were to declare that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut-jr/it-might-make-me-seem-more-human-at-this-point-which-is-to-say-more/)

[Kurt Vonnegut Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/)

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> [“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/so-this-is-where-all-the-vapid-talk-about-the-soul-of-the-universe-is/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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                        "text": "The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.",
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                        "text": "“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding, and going through ritual gestures at me. I realised something dreadful about them. They were thrusting an incredible and ugly lie upon the world and the world was making no such resistance as I was disposed to make to this enthronement of cruelty. Either I had to come into this immense luminous coop and submit, or I had to declare the Catholic Church, the core and substance of Christendom with all its divines, sages, saints, and martyrs, with successive thousands of believers, age after age, wrong. ...I found my doubt of his essential integrity, and the shadow of contempt it cast, spreading out from him to the whole Church and religion of which he with his wild spoutings about the agonies of Hell, had become the symbol. I felt ashamed to be sitting there in such a bath of credulity.”",
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                        "text": "“There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They ask to be deceived. What Stresemann said of the Germans is true of the frustrated in general: \"They pray not only for their daily bread, but also for their daily illusion.\" The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.”",
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                        "text": "“It might make me seem more human at this point, which is to say more sympathetic, if I were to declare that I itched and blinked and nearly swooned with a feeling of unreality. Sorry. Not so. I confess to a ghastly lack in myself. Anything I see or hear or feel or taste or smell is real to me. I am so much a credulous plaything of my senses that nothing is unreal to me. This armor-plated credulity has been continent even in times when I was struck on the head or drunk or, in one freakish adventure that need not concern this accounting, even under the influence of cocaine.”",
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                        "text": "“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.”",
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