Credulous Quotes

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Walt Whitman
“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works

Erik Pevernagie
“While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the “followers” are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comes…" ("His master's voice" )”
Erik Pevernagie

Thomas Paine
“All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The vast majority of those who deem some people fools because they are fooled by their political leaders are themselves fooled by their religious leaders. And vice versa.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our future generations will laugh at us when our people see the Special Effects they will shout SubhanAllah or OMG! our generation problem is that there are thousands of synonyms for creduloUS but we know less than ten of them.”
Jahanshah Safari