The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?' "'It happens, Jules.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Harry was speechless. Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she was pretending she had, to… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
To be evil is to suffer incredulity of your person who is faceted by the non-effects of a responsive behavior. — Isaac Thomas Copy Share Image
Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The theologian Meric Casaubon argued—in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity—that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake. "Maybe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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