Havelock Ellis Quotes

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

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.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things [witches and witchcraft] are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe.

Credulity without enquiry is a sure way to deceive oneself.

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.

The childlike confidence which many people possess in the efficacy of a new law would be amusing if it were not so serious in its harmful effects.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

I accept what people say. I don't have time to dissect it.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Those who know nothing must believe everything.