Disbelief Quotes · Page 4

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

— Charles Darwin

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

— Thomas Carlyle

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

— Edward Norton

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

— Ed Weeks

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas…

— Yann Martel

“Disbelief. Pain. Resolve. Christ, she was exquisite. He was going to screw her ten different ways until she couldn’t stand up, and…

— Kitty French

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook…

— Alexandra Adornetto

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I live in the writing, as the words come out of my throat burning all that I see in the surreal valley…

— Jeremy Limn

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a…

— Vera Farmiga

Success comes to those who dreams big,believe in self & face any eventuality without fear. It is fear & disbelief which make…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face…

— Tom Stoppard

The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set…

— Hugo Black

Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has…

— Rudolf Arnheim

I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing.…

— Diet Eman

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen…

— Alex O'Loughlin

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character…

— Richard Dean Anderson

Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing…

— Anonymous

Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry'…

— John Flanagan

“When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never…

— Thomas Jefferson

If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who…

— Clarence Darrow

“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported,…

— Erin Merryn

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but…

— Kingsley Amis

“Perhaps all love affairs are nothing more than the projections of hopeful hearts looking for soft lodging in a world that would…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been…

— Peggy Noonan

“When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order…

— Erica Bauermeister

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead…

— Wendy Kaminer

“I suspended my disbelief, and left it floating in mid air.”

— Jarod Kintz

“She shouted at Rune, “You did not just do that!” His deep voice sounded overhead. “How is that disbelief working out for…

— Thea Harrison

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the…

— Peter Greenaway

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in…

— William Friedkin

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an…

— John Allen Paulos

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't…

— Sylvester Stallone

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

— David Mitchell

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything.

— Arthur Lynch