Credulous Quotes

39 quotes by 36 authors

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and… — William Kingdon Clifford
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had… — Mikhail Bakunin
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught… — Carl Sagan
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the… — Edmund Crispin
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
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
It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies,… — Albert J. Nock
If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the… — Anatoly Kuznetsov
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. — William James
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
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are. — Kurt Vonnegut
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has… — J. William Fulbright
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for… — H. L. Mencken
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant… — Charles Darwin
The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or… — Irving Fisher
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise. — Idries Shah
The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated. — Vannoccio Biringuccio

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