I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
~ Maya Angelou - [Credulity]

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
~ Calvin Coolidge - [Credulity]

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
~ Madame DorothT Deluzy - [Credulity]

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
~ Tryon Edwards - [Credulity]

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell - [Credulity]

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck - [Credulity]

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.
~ Eric Hoffer - [Credulity]

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
~ Thomas Hood - [Credulity]

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - [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.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge - [Credulity]