The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
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.
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
I don't consider myself to be that credulous.
Love is a credulous thing.