Quotes and Sayings about Credulity
"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."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Truth, People, Credulity, Heroes, Now, Old, Today, Words)
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: First, Incredulity, Philosophy)
"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."
- Carl Van Doren
(Related: Conformity, Credulity, Man, Race, Sheep)
"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
- Tryon Edwards
(Related: Belief, Credulity)
"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly."
- Elizabeth Gaskell
(Related: Life, Credulity)
"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Cause, Credulity, Mind, Skepticism)
"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: Strength, Credulity, Man, Weakness)
"Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Incredulity, Nothing)
"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Candor, Friends, Incredulity)
"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."
- Malcolm Muggeridge
(Related: God, Truth, Credulity, Nothing, Sin)
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
- Walter Scott
(Related: Religion, Doubt, Incredulity)
"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."
- Philip Sidney
(Related: Heart, Credulity)