Credulity Quotes

87 Credulity quotes by 64 unique authors

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Margaret of Valois
We believe easily what we fear of what we desire — Jean de La Fontaine
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have… — Thomas Paine
The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and… — Thomas Paine
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the… — Max Muller
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. — Jeffrey Sachs
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged… — William E. Gladstone
It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between. — Paul Davies
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss.… — Bette Davis
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been… — Malcolm Muggeridge
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep… — Lysander Spooner
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and… — Carl Sagan
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or… — Walt Whitman
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual… — Joseph Conrad
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier… — John Updike
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his… — Charles Dickens
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest… — Malcolm Muggeridge

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