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
“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Let us not be content with merely ‘formatting’ generations, but instead, focus on cultivating and enlightening them, ensuring independent thinking where acceptance… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why. J: Oh, yes, it would be… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman 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
There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift.… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
“...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
