Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom…

At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be…

— Andrew Linzey

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

— Heraclitus

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

— David Mitchell

“Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?' "'It happens, Jules.”

— Jennifer Egan

The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity…

— John Adams

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so…

— Richard Dawkins

... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry…

— Anna Julia Cooper

We are responsible for our incredulity.

— Samantha Power

“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them. Anything that…

— Carl Sagan

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

— Denis Diderot

“If you can't show it, you don't know it.”

— Aron Ra

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard