Quotes About Credulity

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

The cause of liberty, he wrote, had always attracted "knaves" and "Qua[c]ks in Politics," "Impostors in Patriotism" who imposed upon the "credulity of the well-meaning deluded Multitude.

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

As we have seen, there is something that most Americans share with Osama bin Laden, the nineteen hijackers, and much of the Muslim world. We, too, cherish the idea that certain fantastic propositions can be believed without evidence. Such heroic acts of credulity are thought not only acceptable but redeeming ? even necessary.

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

and if a fool is believed then those who believe him are even bigger fools.

People are far more stupid than that.

Confiar, una palabra solo apta para idiotas

For him to claim now that he'd dashed off a spec script brilliant enough to win him a fat Hollywood contract did not merely strain Credulity; it beat the crap out of Credulity and sent Credulity's next of kin scurrying to its bedside.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example they do not then believe in nothing.... They commence believing in anything.

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

A lie often told enough will eventually be accepted as truth. - Acsah

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

It stretches credulity to try to explain away our inconsistencies in working with al-Qaeda in Egypt, Libya, and Syria while being diligently at war with the same group. Pursuing these contradictory policies makes no sense.

It's a well-known fact that unhappy people often become superstitious, and though they may mock the hopeful credulity of others, their own superstition at times inspires the same hopes in them...

Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse—constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor. However

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

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