"Credulity is always ridiculous." — Frances Wright

Credulity is always ridiculous. - Frances Wright

"Credulity is always ridiculous."

— Frances Wright

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48 Quotes by Frances Wright

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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary.…
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it…
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would…
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of…
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good…
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights…
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may…
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and…

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More Credulity Quotes

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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

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