Credulous Quote by Alexander Pope

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own…

— Alexander Pope

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the…

— Thomas Paine

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

— William James

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge…

— William Wallace

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

— William Shakespeare

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

— Malcolm Gladwell

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

— Calvin Coolidge

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

— Bertrand Russell

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

— Walter Bagehot

“He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new…

— Sinclair Lewis

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

— Honore de Balzac

“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him;…

— Samuel Butler