Credulity Quote by Craig A. Evans Download Open image “Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.” — Craig A. Evans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Credulity Critical Doubt Radical Skepticism
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is certainly a beneficial tool, to the extent that it yields a dialectic of ideas that can progress toward empirical resolution of difficult… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The materials in I Enoch range in date from 200 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. I Enoch contributes much to intertestamental views of angels, heaven,… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
Archaeological evidence provides significant help in interpreting the Gospels. In a sense, archaeology is an exegetical tool. To ignore the evidence of archaeology would… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us nothing about… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification,… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
The principal problem is that textual data and material remains are often incomplete and sometimes lack adequate context, in order to know precisely how… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36); (2)… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
