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Letter "C" » credulity
«A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly»
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
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credulity
«(History) The record of the periodical crusades for or against some bogey which believing men have evolved out of their credulity or fear»
Author: Ernest Boyd
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bogey, credulity, crusade, crusades, crusading, evolved, periodical, The Crusades
«I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all»
«If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity»
«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.»
«Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence»
«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.»
«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.»
«Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehood which interests dictates and credulity encourages»
«One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
Author: Thomas Paine
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