Credulity Quotes
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. (Quote by - John Petit-senn)
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? (Quote by - Madame Dorothée Deluzy)
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. (Quote by - Ralph Barton Perry)
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. (Quote by - Elizabeth Gaskell)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. (Quote by - Umberto Eco)
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich. (Quote by - Stephen Bayley)
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men. (Quote by - Friedrich Max Muller)
It defies credulity that they have now disavowed this right that they have promised shareholders. It's just another in a growing list of slaps to the face of their shareholders. (Quote by - Ralph Whitworth)
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. (Quote by - Alexander Chase)
History The record of the periodical crusades for or against some bogey which believing men have evolved out of their credulity or fear. (Quote by - Ernest Boyd)
Much of what passes for news in Washington is very hurried leaks from officials in power, whether in a corridor conversation or a thirty second phone call. And the media is far too credulous of accepting the word of Washington officialdom when it comes to self-serving leaks or publishing self-serving information. (Quote by - Mark Feldstein)
Voters would find it a strained argument to believe that the senator who prides herself on intelligence and knowledge of detail can't recall any details in this case. It just strains credulity. (Quote by - Jonathan Tasini)
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. (Quote by - Marguerite De Valois)
Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehood which interests dictates and credulity encourages. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. (Quote by - Jeffrey Sachs)
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. (Quote by - Carl Van Doren)
The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. (Quote by - Fitz-greene Halleck)
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow. (Quote by - William Murray)
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly. (Quote by - Terence)
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
