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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all
There's a sucker born every minute.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of read more
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small read more
The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take read more
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory