Common Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

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 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

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

— Tryon Edwards

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

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious…

— Joseph Addison

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

— Vannoccio Biringuccio

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

— Fanny Burney

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

— Samuel Johnson

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run save him…

— Hector Hugh Munro

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

— Samuel Richardson