Credulity Quote by William E. Gladstone

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

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

— Craig A. Evans

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

— Edgar Saltus

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the…

— David Hume

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

— George Santayana

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.”

— Immanuel Kant

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.

— Anonymous

“I’m consciously shedding the assumption that a skeptical point of view is the most intellectually credible. Intellect does not function in opposition to mystery;…

— Krista Tippett

“Skepticism is certainly a beneficial tool, to the extent that it yields a dialectic of ideas that can progress toward empirical resolution of difficult…

— Jaak Panksepp