Credulity Quote by Al-Maʿarri Download Open image “A little doubt is better than total credulity” — Al-Maʿarri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Credulity Doubt Inspirational Littles
“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards 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
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
“So, too, the creeds of man: the one prevails Until the other comes; and this one fails When that one triumphs; ay, the lonesome… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. — Al-Maʿarri 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; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to… — 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 has the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
