"Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle……" — Christopher Hitchens
"Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence."
More Credulity Quotes
- Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we… — 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… — 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… — Muhammad Asad
- Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
- [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so… — Adam Sedgwick