"Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for……" — Samuel Hopkins Adams

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• The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that… — William Kingdon Clifford
• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all… — John Dryden
• All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous… — Mikhail Bakunin
• These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation.… — Carl Sagan
• None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious.… — Unknown Author
• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all… — Walt Whitman
• That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to… — Umberto Eco
• It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to… — Albert J. Nock
• If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to… — Unknown Author
• Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. — William James
• The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character… — William Kingdon Clifford
• Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous… — Kurt Vonnegut

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