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O credulity, Security's blind nurse, the dream of fools, The drunkard's ape, that feeling for his way Ev'n when he thinks, in his deluded sense To snatch at safety, falls without defence. - John Mason The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. - Henry Louis Mencken The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. - George Jean Nathan Ignorant people are to be caught by the ears as one catches a pot by the handle. - Old French Saying Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) We all know that a lie needs no other grounds than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth all that is alleged against the fame of others is a species of credulity that men would blush at on any other subject. - Jane Porter Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. - Samuel Richardson 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 (Sydney) The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. - Henry David Thoreau Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything. - William Windham Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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