Love is an affair of credulity. [ Ovid ]

Quick believers need broad shoulders [ George Herbert ]

Credulity thinks others short-sighted. [ Abb6 Guerguil ]

Your noblest natures are most credulous. [ Chapman ]

Credulity tells people we are short-sighted. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire. [ La Fontaine ]

Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires. [ Landor ]

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. [ Terence ]

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. [ Tacitus ]

I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything. [ William Windham ]

Suspicion is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. [ Thomas Fuller ]

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. [ Joubert ]

Ignorant people are to be caught by the ears as one catches a pot by the handle. [ From the French ]

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]

We believe at once in evil; we only believe in good upon reflection. Is not this sad? [ Madame Deluzy ]

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. [ Tuckerman ]

We must remember how apt man is to extremes - rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. [ Thoreau ]