Quotes about Disbelief (192 quotes)

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Votes: 6

Tom Robbins

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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief? Votes: 4

Ed Wood

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The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god. Votes: 4

Marilyn Manson

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. Votes: 4

W. Clement Stone

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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. Votes: 4

Lionel Trilling

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The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. Votes: 4

Edward Norton

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Votes: 4

Thomas Carlyle

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. Votes: 4

Stephen Sondheim

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To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously. Votes: 4

Jerry Saltz

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Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based. Votes: 4

Gillian Anderson

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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. Votes: 4

Edward Norton

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It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while. Votes: 4

Seth Grahame-Smith

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Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people. Votes: 3

Ray Bradbury

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Disbelief is the strongest tool in our arsenal. Votes: 3

Thomm Quackenbush

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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. Votes: 3

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. Votes: 3

Charles Darwin

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Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild. Votes: 3

Markus Zusak

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Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason. Votes: 3

Fulton J. Sheen

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Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. Votes: 3

David Hume

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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief. Votes: 2

Taylor Swift

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Votes: 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. Votes: 2

George Bernard Shaw

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I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds. Votes: 2

Stephen Sondheim

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. Votes: 2

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. Votes: 2

Pete Townshend

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If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. Votes: 2

James Nachtwey

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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. Votes: 2

Mahatma Gandhi

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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 suspend disbelief. Votes: 2

Sylvester Stallone

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The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything. Votes: 2

Dave Winer

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The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. Votes: 2

Roger Mudd

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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. Votes: 2

Yann Martel

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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much. Votes: 2

Adam McKay

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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief. Votes: 2

Oren Peli

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When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go. Votes: 2

Dennis Franz

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One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled. Votes: 2

Rex Stout

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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. Votes: 2

A. A. Milne

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Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief. Votes: 2

Jennifer Michael Hecht

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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. Votes: 2

Tony Campolo

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You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to. Votes: 2

Richard Dean Anderson

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company. Votes: 2

Oscar Wilde

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People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. Votes: 2

Henry Rollins

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The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief. Votes: 2

Eileen Caddy

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With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us? Votes: 2

David Henry Hwang

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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture. Votes: 2

R. A. Salvatore

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I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea. Votes: 2

Tom Mison

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I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief. Votes: 1

Melissa Bank

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I believe you, Tamara, I just don't believe it. Votes: 1

Cecelia Ahern

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It seems the more we know, the less we believe. Votes: 1

J.S.B. Morse

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I suspended my disbelief, and left it floating in mid air. Votes: 1

Jarod Kintz

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Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics. Votes: 1

J.S.B. Morse

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Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly! Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. Votes: 1

Cormac McCarthy

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Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts. Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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Let not those who hurry to fall into disbelief grieve you of such like them to disbelieve without course. Votes: 1

Auliq Ice

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people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection Votes: 1

Natascha Kampusch

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...victims of violent crime are not always believed...[referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial] Votes: 1

Natascha Kampusch

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Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved. Votes: 1

Katherine Rundell

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Denial exists when three beliefs intersect:1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you.3. It cannot happen to you now. Votes: 1

Johnnie Dent Jr.

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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. Votes: 1

Plutarch

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Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief. Votes: 1

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Verily, the weight of half of disbelief in the world is carried by religious people who made God detestable to His servants. Votes: 1

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

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What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) Votes: 1

Stephen Batchelor

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Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness. Votes: 1

John Fowles

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Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief. Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men. Votes: 1

E.A. Bucchianeri

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The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. Votes: 1

Shannon L. Alder

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The best thing about being neutral and not believing or disbelieving in anything is that the nature reveals the truth in front of you automatically. Votes: 1

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

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Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present. Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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Your doubts do nothing than pouring cold water on your enviable dreams. Just keep doubts away from you and you will not dilute your success story! Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion. Votes: 1

Alexandra Potter

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Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted. Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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I mean you're cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that she could press herself against your manly body? Votes: 1

Malorie Blackman

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He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief. Votes: 1

Dominic Riccitello

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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. Votes: 1

Gabriel García Márquez

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Impossibilitarians are defeated before the battle even begins. The best attitude that accommodates failure is disbelief. You can't do it because you believe you can't! You can do it because you believe you can! Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. Votes: 1

Abraham Maslow

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Votes: 1

Thomas Paine

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The shape of your dreams will not hold if you believe that disbelief is the mending glue. You will only turn back to see the pieces of your dreams if you have the impossibility mindset. Votes: 1

Israelmore Ayivor

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I haven't believed in magic because I don't believe in anything that I haven't seen with my own eyes. Therefore, I must go to Paelsia as soon as I can and learn the truth for myself Votes: 1

Morgan Rhodes

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There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all. Votes: 1

Frederick Barthelme

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If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!""Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak. Votes: 1

Lewis Carroll

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What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly. Votes: 1

Darin Strauss

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Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help."I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them. Votes: 1

Tamora Pierce

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This is what I had come for, just this, and nothing more. A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, the assault of real things, living and still, with shapes and powers under the sky- this is my city, my culture, and all the world I need. Votes: 1

Annie Dillard

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I regret my disbelief in God. Votes: 0

Peter Medawar

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I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief. Votes: 0

August Wilson

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Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. Votes: 0

Albert Bandura

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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?" Votes: 0

Ed Wood

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The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium. Votes: 0

Joseph Bologna

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The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium." Votes: 0

Joseph Bologna

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The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief. Votes: 0

Rodney Mullen

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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it. Votes: 0

Elena Ferrante

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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. Votes: 0

Frank Barron

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Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Votes: 0

John Tillotson

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... as belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief; ... Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. Votes: 0

Lauren Oliver

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Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie. Votes: 0

Edward Norton

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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend. Votes: 0

Hal Rothman

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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . Votes: 0

David Mitchell

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The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time. Votes: 0

Tao Lin

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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations. Votes: 0

William Friedkin

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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism. Votes: 0

Tom Stoppard

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A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. Votes: 0

Po Bronson

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A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile. Votes: 0

Jethro Tull

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Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic! Votes: 0

Andrew Lord

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When Celtic faced closure in 1994. My feelings then were of disbelief and concern for my mates who were Celtic fans. Votes: 0

Ally McCoist

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Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything. Votes: 0

Arthur Lynch

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Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life. Votes: 0

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief. Votes: 0

Rodney Stark

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Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words. Votes: 0

Peter Mayle

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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. Votes: 0

Anne Sexton

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If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. Votes: 0

James Nachtwey

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Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith. Votes: 0

Josh McDowell

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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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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 or not. Votes: 0

William Friedkin

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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance Votes: 0

Al-Ghazali

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The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on. Votes: 0

Rhys Ifans

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Whatâs your name, then? âTessa looked at him in disbelief. âWhatâs my name?â âDonât you know it? Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory. Votes: 0

Patricia Hampl

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I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. Votes: 0

Edward Norton

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Dan Quayle

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Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." Votes: 0

Tryon Edwards

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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief. Votes: 0

Nicholas Sparks

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Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God. Votes: 0

Ravi Zacharias

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The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation. Votes: 0

John A. Hobson

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They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being. Votes: 0

Graham Greene

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When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life. Votes: 0

Will Gluck

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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief. Votes: 0

Vera Farmiga

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I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children. Votes: 0

Elin Nordegren

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The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer. Votes: 0

Jonathan Carroll

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When I was a boy during Thatcher, you watched elections and wept in disbelief as the whole country turned blue, Scotland turned red, and we still got the Tories. Votes: 0

John Niven

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In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural. Votes: 0

Michael Shermer

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When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief. Votes: 0

Helena Bonham Carter

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If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered. Votes: 0

Alexandra Adornetto

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I tried to raise my eyebrows in disbelief, but I forgot I'd packed away my eyebrows along with all my other winter clothing. My iced coffee was watery and warm with neglect. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence. Votes: 0

Kevin DeYoung

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Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought. Votes: 0

Janet Lembke

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In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled. Votes: 0

John Allen Paulos

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Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief. Votes: 0

Jess Walter

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In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect Votes: 0

Heather O'Neill

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These events have split the whole world into two camps: the camp of belief and the camp of disbelief.... There is only one God, and I declare that there is no prophet but Muhammad. Votes: 0

Osama bin Laden

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Al was looking at me in disbelief. âNot your lover?â âNo.â âBut he is Rachel candy,â Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked. Votes: 0

Kim Harrison

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It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief. Votes: 0

Johnny Depp

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I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate. Votes: 0

Sharon Salzberg

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How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight. Votes: 0

Tom Stoppard

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It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them. Votes: 0

David Copperfield

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The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief. Votes: 0

Lewis H. Lapham

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Quotes about Disbelief

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Quotes about Disbelief

Belief disbelief (37 quotes)

Culture of disbelief (9 quotes)

Disbelief in self (35 quotes)

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