Quotes about Credulity

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Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell t — George Carlin
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of — Christopher Hitchens
How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity cause — Jean Meslier, Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier
Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms — Sam Harris
Politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially for every politician who would succeed. If yo — F. S. Oliver
In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of naiveté if the accompan — Frithjof Schuon, Light on the Ancient Worlds
The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the — Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol 1: Lectures
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. — Charles Lamb
Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or th — Jeffrey Tayler
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere b — William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose — Edward Clodd
When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabit — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, a — Adolf von Harnack, What is Christianity?
I've already told the police what happened, they didn't believe me. Why should you,' he said.'Because we're the people t — Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficu — Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
My mouth fell open in incredulity.“Ah, Maria. Are you trying to tell me you’ve taken up the sport of fly-catching with y — Kelly Batten, One Day You'll Find Me
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
If you can't show it, you don't know it. — Aron Ra
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one o — Malcolm Muggeridge