credulity, n.Definitions

Credulity is better than unbelief.

Credulity is the neighbor of thoughtlessness.

Credulity is due to the fact that we know least about ourselves.

Credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Credulity is stimulated both when we are absolutely helpless or absolutely powerful.

Credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earth was flat, they were not credulous: They were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, 'look at it.' Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue, and he who is spontaneously suspicious may be justly charged with radical corruption.

Credulity is man's principle trait... a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absence of universal gullibility'.