Incredulity Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity. — Heraclitus
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind… — Richard Dawkins
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. — Clifford Bax
Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity. — Heraclitus
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner. — Ambrose Bierce
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool. — Josh Billings
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion. — Jules de Goncourt
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and… — Carrie P Snow
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
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. — James Russell Lowell
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. — Walter Scott
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex… — Richard Dawkins
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegroâ€™s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.â€¦We know that the… — Jostein Gaarder
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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