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“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.”

Mind Passion Credulity

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.”

Source: Somnambulism and other stories

“Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression.”

World Students Exercise Oppression Domination Ideological Educator Credulity Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.”

People Giving Today Hero Give Me Excuse Villain Old Days Credulity Slick Good Old Days New Words Bravo Heroes And Villains

Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.”

Lying Ability Effects Talent Extraordinary Deceit Deceiving Cunning Credulity

Book:The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“Credulity is always ridiculous.”

Ridiculous Credulity

Author:Frances Wright

“The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.”

People Art Turns Depends Curiosity Marvelous Magician Credulity

Author:Alexander Herrmann

“The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.”

Men Done Character Belief Support Harm Confined Credulity Fostering

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check by a lively skepticism about everything.... It keeps you constantly alert to every possibility.”

Thinking Matter Possibility Fine Healthy Casts Checks Skepticism Lively Credulity

Book:Murther and Walking Spirits

Source: Murther and Walking Spirits

“Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.”

Love May War Truth Interest Courage Falsehood Calamity Credulity

Author:Samuel Johnson

“If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.”

Ifs Challenges Common Groups Common Sense Elephants Unlikely Living Things Small Groups Credulity

Book:Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant

Source: Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant

“Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.”

Critical Radical Skepticism Credulity

Author:Craig A. Evans

“The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.”

Men Want States Force Depends Aim Credulity

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.”

People Thinking Christian Silence Regard Profound Absurd Fables Antiquity Credulity Insipid Prussia

Author:Frederick The Great

“The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.”

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.”

Crime Cynical Calendars Sucker Humiliating Credulity

Author:Max Lerner

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