Quotes
Quotes about Credulity
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow,--attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
A satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
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.
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
