Credulity Quotes

87 quotes by 64 authors

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for… — Christopher Hitchens
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… — Bertrand Russell
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. — Philip Sidney
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Ralph Barton Perry
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. — Eric Hoffer
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his… — Muhammad Asad
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and… — Richard Dawkins
Too much doubt is better than too much credulity. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's… — Umberto Eco
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic… — Eric Hoffer
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers -… — Stephen Bayley

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