Top 130 Credulity Quotes & Sayings

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

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

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

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

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is 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. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

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

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.

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.

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

Faith does not mean credulity...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A little doubt is better than total credulity.

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

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.

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

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

Love is an affair of credulity.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

[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.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

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.

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

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

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

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our 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 happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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.

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.

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.