Credulity Quote by Anonymous

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

— Craig A. Evans

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

— Tryon Edwards

A little doubt is better than total credulity

— Al-Maʿarri

“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

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

— William E. Gladstone

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I’m consciously shedding the assumption that a skeptical point of view is the most intellectually credible. Intellect does not function in opposition to mystery;…

— Krista Tippett

“Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.”

— Chris Brady

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

— Kathryn Schulz