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
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks… — Paul Johnson 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
Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to… — Thucydides 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
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity. — Plutarch Copy Share Image