Credulity Quotes

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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.

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.

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

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.

Faith does not mean credulity...

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

A little doubt is better than total credulity.

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

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.

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.

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

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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.

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

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

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.

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

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

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

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

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

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

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

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

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

[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.