Credulity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be…

— Isaac Asimov

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we…

— Victor Hugo

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which…

— Richard Dawkins

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally…

— Henry David Thoreau

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

— Anonymous

“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