"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is…" — Philip Sidney
"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."
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63 Quotes by Philip Sidney
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle…
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his
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A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and…
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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will…
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More Credulity Quotes
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one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the…
— Bertrand Russell
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
— Tryon Edwards
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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
— Ralph Barton Perry
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
— Eric Hoffer
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the…
— Muhammad Asad
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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[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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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
— John Arbuthnot
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