Quotes about Credulity
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything.
— GK Chesterton
Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
— Abraham Lincoln
People named Jon tend to be highly susceptible to false information online and tend to believe whatever already lines up with their worldview.
— Abraham Lincoln
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
— William James
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
— Jeremiah 7:8
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
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
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