“ History warns us... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”
- Thomas Henry Huxley- Copy
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“ The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever dangerous. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers — the rich. ”
- Stephen Bayley- Copy
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“ I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. ”
- Ralph B. Perry- Copy
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“ Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
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“ The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ”
- Fitz Greene Halleck- Copy
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“ Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. ”
- John Petit Senn- Copy
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“ Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
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“ 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 imposters will find impudence. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. ”
- Lord Melbourne- Copy
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“ All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity. ”
- William Pitt Chatham- Copy
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“ A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
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“ Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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