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Doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct — Kathryn Schulz

credulity and superstition are close friends — Frederick Marryat

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

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. — Frances Wright

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. — Elizabeth Gaskell

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. — Joseph Joubert

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Credulity is always ridiculous. — Frances Wright

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless. — Sam Kean

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle

Love is an affair of credulity. — Ovid

Faith Is Not Credulity. — Ronald Fisher

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Margaret Of Valois

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. — Benjamin Disraeli

Generous souls
Are still most subject to credulity. — William Davenant

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. — George Bernard Shaw

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity. — Voltaire

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot

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

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

We must remember how apt man is to extremes
rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. — Charles Lamb

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire — Jean De La Fontaine

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. — Samuel Johnson

Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes. — Frederic Bastiat

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent. — Joseph Joubert

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson

Don't trust the one who stopped believing. Trust the one who never believed. — Marty Rubin

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

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. — Jeffrey Sachs

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth

Credulity that was being tested. A fat man with red — Lev Grossman

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity. — Craig A. Evans

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. — George Bernard Shaw

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims. — Michael Crichton

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

Credulity is the sister of innocence ... — Fanny Burney

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. — Mark Twain

One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled. — Edmund Burke

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. — Philip Sidney

The credulity of crowds is never-ending. — Peter Ackroyd

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. — Sophie Swetchine

There was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence. — Bernard Cornwell

A little doubt is better than total credulity — Al-Ma'arri

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. — Tacitus

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone