Quotes about Credulity
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.
- John Updike
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- Jeremiah 7:8
I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.
- Thomas Paine
Credulity is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain the truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in anything.
- Thomas Paine
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It
- Thomas Paine
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
- William James
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
- GK Chesterton
Our politics, economics, advertising, and religions (New Age and Old) are awash in credulity. Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism
- Carl Sagan
The higher the intelligence, the more faith, and the less credulity; Gabriel rejects more than we, but out-believes us all.
- Herman Melville
And the sad thing is that while men refuse to believe the Word of the living God, yet they are sufficiently credulous to accept Satan's lies.
- AW Pink
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
- Samuel Johnson
Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
- Abraham Lincoln