Quotes About Credulity

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

People seem to be awfully gullible. They'll believe anything. ~in The NPR Intreviews, 1996, edited by Robert Siegel

it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

All the world knows it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

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.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

On belief in miracles) - "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.