You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
Credulity Quotes
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.
There is a type of mind that will believe anything if it is sufficiently fantastic, and it is a waste of time arguing with it. No one has ever received much thanks for exposing credulity.
Of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Our twentieth century, far from being notable for scientific skepticism, is one of the most credulous eras in all history. It is not that people believe in nothing – which would be bad enough – but that hey believe in anything – which is really terrible. Recoiling, as they do, from accepting the validity of […]
We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
