Joseph Joubert Quotes

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Love is a credulous thing.

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

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

In matters of religion it is very easy to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.

Love is a believing creature.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Faith does not mean credulity...

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.