Calumny Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calumny Calumny is Credulity Gullibility Inspirational Knows Love
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear. — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“Saint John of the Ladder explains it thus: "The devil tempts us to commit sin; and when he does not succeed, he points scornfully… — Fr. Belet Copy Share Image
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
