One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
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Credulity breeds credulity and ends in hypocrisy.
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad in Nostromo
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There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
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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.
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We must combat misinformation that is being spread.
quote by Kenneth Starr
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
quote by Charles Lamb
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The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
quote by Carl Van Doren
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Institutionalization
Any activity, if institutionalized,
Becomes political.
No institution is apolitical.
Don’t give them much credulity.
20.12.2005
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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No credulity
An action can be justified
Or condemned from certain angle.
It depends on one's motives.
Let no credulity be given.
05.02.2012
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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.
quote by William Kingdon Clifford
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There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
quote by Virginia Foxx
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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.
quote by Malcolm Muggeridge
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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.
quote by Bette Davis
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An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope.
quote by Carl Sagan
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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.
Bette Davis in The Lonely Life (1962)
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
quote by Tryon Edwards
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
quote by Bertrand Russell
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