Clever Quote by Frances Wright

Credulity is always ridiculous.

— Frances Wright

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

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

— George Bernard Shaw

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

— Joseph Joubert

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent…

— William Kingdon Clifford

“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

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

— Tryon Edwards

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be…

— William E. Gladstone

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

— Eric Hoffer

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of…

— Isaac Barrow

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

— Fanny Burney

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