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Credulity Quotes

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Jean-Francois Lyotard
Postmodern, Extremes, Incredulity

Faith does not mean credulity...

Ronald Fisher
Credulity
"Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1956.

A little doubt is better than total credulity.

Al-Maʿarri
Doubt, Littles, Credulity
"Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out". Book by Ibn Warraq, May 1, 2003.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Josh Billings
Fool, Belief, Incredulity

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

Fanny Burney
Innocence, Gullibility, Credulity
Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Joseph Joubert
Miracle, Trickery, Credulity

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Jules de Goncourt
Rational, Incredulity, Unbelief

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Believe, Mankind, Incredulity
Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.19, Knickerbocker Classics

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

Margaret of Valois
Disappointment, Suffering, Credulity
"Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Plutarch
Divine, Lost, Incredulity
Plutarch (2010). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire

Jean de La Fontaine
Believe, Desire, Credulity

Credulity is always ridiculous.

Frances Wright
Ridiculous, Credulity

That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.

Umberto Eco
Passion, Mind, Credulity
Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Oliver Goldsmith
Universal, Incredulity, Display
Oliver Goldsmith (1859). “A History of the Earth and Animated Nature: Illus. with 85 Copperplates”, p.270

Incredulity is not wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon
Incredulity

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