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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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.
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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