CREDULITY

Related Subjects: Belief, Doubt, Faith, Possibility, Probability, Simplicity, Trust, Wonder

1. He had been kicked in the Head by a Mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday Papers.—GEORGE ADE, Fables in Slang
   

2. The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever impostors will find impudence.—C. N. BOVEE
   

3. Your noblest natures are most credulous.—GEORGE CHAPMAN
   

4. It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness, will be our credulity as to the mysterious powers assumed by others.—C. C. COLTON
   

5. Generous souls are still most subject to credulity.—SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT
   

6. Credulity is belief on slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. In this sense it is the infidel, not the believer, who is credulous. "The simple," says Solomon, "believeth every word."—TRYON EDWARDS
   

7. A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.—MRS. GASKELL, Cranford
   

8. I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.—FITZ-GREENE HALLECK

9. Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

10. Some men are bigoted in politics, who are infidels in religion. Ridiculous credulity!—JUNIUS
    

11. Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.—CHARLES LAMB, Witches, and Other Night Fears
    

12. We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
    

13. This is yet the childhood of the world, and a supine credulity is still the most charming characteristic of man.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

14. The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy,—their own self-love.—POPE
    

15. Credulity thinks others short sighted.—Proverb
    

16. Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.—ROUSSEAU, Confessions
    

17. The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
    

18. The general goodness which is nourished in noble hearts, makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
    

19. As credulity is a more peaceful possession of the mind than curiosity, so preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface, to that pretended philosophy which enters into the depth of things, and then comes back gravely with the informations and discoveries that in the inside they are good for nothing.—SWIFT