Quotes of: Credulity Keyword

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.

William Kingdon Clifford

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Charles Lamb

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope

Love is a credulous thing.

Ovid

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.

Eliza Cook

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

Christopher Hitchens

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Philip Sidney

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Elizabeth Gaskell

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wr...

The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Confessions

credulity and superstition are close friends

Frederick Marryat

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

Tryon Edwards

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Joseph Conrad

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

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

Carl Clinton Van Doren

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

Thomas Jefferson

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Reflections