Quotes About Credulity

Boys fell for so many things you wouldn't think they'd believe. It was really incredible. None of her friends back home had been quite so stupid.

Je n'aimais pas poser les questions qui poussaient mes interlocuteurs à se moquer en soupirant de notre crédulité d'Occidentaux survitaminés et sous-informés. (p. 18)

Ignorance is trust. —

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

those who believe in nothing for long enough will eventually believe in anything.

Sad to say, not all human beings were that open-minded. Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.

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.

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.

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

As G. K. Chesterton bemoaned, once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Nobody blamed the credulity and avarice of the people—the degrading lust of gain…or the infatuation which had made the multitude run their heads with such frantic eagerness into the net held out for them by scheming projectors.

Faith does not mean credulity...

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.

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you will believe them, but if they tell you that a wall has wet paint, you will have to touch it to be sure?

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The old bit about only believing half of what you see and none of what you read no longer applies. The American people believe everything they see on the TV and those that do read, believe all of what's in print. `It has to be true otherwise they wouldn't print it?

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

It is characteristic of the average mind often to question what it hears, but to believe wholeheartedly what it reads.

I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing-enough voice and they would believe it. Anything, of course, except the truth.