Credulity Quotes
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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
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
Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Credulity is always ridiculous.
— Frances Wright
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
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 soulsAre 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 extremesrushing 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
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 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
