Quotes about Credulity

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Votes: 6

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. Votes: 6

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. Votes: 4

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. Votes: 4

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. Votes: 4

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. Votes: 4

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. Votes: 4

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Faith Is Not Credulity. Votes: 3

Credulity is always ridiculous. Votes: 3

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent. Votes: 3

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength Votes: 3

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. Votes: 3

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence Votes: 3

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. Votes: 3

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning. Votes: 3

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. Votes: 2

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. Votes: 2

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. Votes: 2

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. Votes: 2

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. Votes: 2

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Votes: 2

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. Votes: 2

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. Votes: 2

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Votes: 2

It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. Votes: 2

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has. Votes: 2

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. Votes: 2

credulity is the sister of innocence ... Votes: 0

Love is an affair of credulity. Votes: 0

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. Votes: 0

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity. Votes: 0

A little doubt is better than total credulity Votes: 0

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity. Votes: 0

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity. Votes: 0

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled. Votes: 0

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. Votes: 0

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. Votes: 0

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims. Votes: 0

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. Votes: 0

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Votes: 0

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity. Votes: 0

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par. Votes: 0

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. Votes: 0

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. Votes: 0

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. Votes: 0

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. Votes: 0

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all Votes: 0

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. Votes: 0

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! Votes: 0

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. Votes: 0

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. Votes: 0

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Votes: 0

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive. Votes: 0

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous. Votes: 0

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. Votes: 0

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science. Votes: 0

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people. Votes: 0

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression. Votes: 0

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. ... The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism. Votes: 0

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. Votes: 0

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity. Votes: 0

. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers. Votes: 0

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0