Quotes with credulity

  • Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

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  • Elizabeth Gaskell A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
    Elisabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Tryon Edwards Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph B. Perry I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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  • Umberto Eco If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Bayley 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.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge 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.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Carl Van Doren The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Bette Davis 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.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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