Quotes About Credulity

whose foundation, being fraud, illusion, credulity, and infatuation, fell to the ground as soon as the artful management of its directors was discovered.

The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.

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

Women are more credulous than men.

Chapter 7 takes a psychological truism, "we tend to believe what we think others believe" and turns it around: We tend to think others believe what we believe. This chapter examines a set of cognitive, social, and motivational processes that prompt us to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs, further bolstering our credulity.

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.

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 the truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in anything.

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Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.

You have to remain critically vigilant." Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views it as obvious. Resist being credulous.

It must also be remembered, that to the auricular deceptions practised by the means of ventriloquism or otherwise, may be traced many of the most successful impostures which credulity has received as supernatural communications.

Yeah, trust the fuckhead.

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

Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.

During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity. Prophecies of all sorts are rife on such occasions, and are readily believed, whether for good or evil. During the great plague, which ravaged all Europe, between the years 1345 and 1350, it was generally considered that the end of the world was at hand.

But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.

The Emperor's New Clothes.

What the eyes see and the ears hear the mind believes

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. --Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940)