Credulity Quotes

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. (Charles Lamb)
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. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
I perceive that the race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. View quote
Carl Van Doren
Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity. View quote
Charles Mackay
Indians, of course, have no 'theology,' and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
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. View quote
Paulo Freire
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students. View quote
Paulo Freire
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. (George Bernard Shaw)
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. View quote
Philip Sidney
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. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey. View quote
H. L. Mencken
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. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. View quote
Eric Hoffer
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. View quote
Bette Davis
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. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. View quote
Walt Whitman
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. (Benjamin Disraeli)
A little doubt is better than total credulity. View quote
Al-Maʿarri
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Credulity [...] is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in any thing. View quote
Thomas Paine
Only now did the scales fall from my eyes. For how great is the force of credulity, how powerful the suggestion of terror! Such incomprehension! But this was a man! A chained-up man, whom I, by incomprehensible means, in a simplifying, metaphorical, and comprehensive elision, had taken for a dog. View quote
Bruno Schulz