Credulity Quote by Joseph Joubert Download Open image “When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.” — Joseph Joubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Credulity Doe Harm Heart Intellect Intelligence
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
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of mendacity.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
“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
The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert 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
