Credulity Quotes

87 Credulity quotes by 64 unique authors

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… — George Bernard Shaw
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology,… — Barbara G. Walker
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the… — Samuel Johnson
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that… — Eric Hoffer
That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a… — Umberto Eco
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for… — Charles Brockden Brown
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt… — Paulo Freire
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie… — Samuel Johnson
Credulity is always ridiculous. — Frances Wright
The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity,… — Alexander Herrmann
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support… — William Kingdon Clifford
These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check… — Robertson Davies
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. — Samuel Johnson
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. — Lyall Watson
Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity. — Craig A. Evans
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely… — H. L. Mencken
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of… — Frederick The Great
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very… — George Bernard Shaw
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a… — Eric Hoffer
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. — Max Lerner
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can… — John Brunner
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical. — George Bernard Shaw
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. — Benjamin Disraeli

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