Incredulity Quotes
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
— Denis Diderot
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
— Publilius Syrus
I think every intelligent woman should have a career.
— Bonita Granville
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
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
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
— Josh Billings
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
— Paul Johnson
Incredulity is not wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
— Rene Descartes
There was awe, and there was also incredulity - sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.
— American Psychiatric Association
We learn from trials and errors.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Mesmerism, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?''It happens, Jules. — Jennifer Egan
Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.
— Lionel Shriver
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
— Plutarch
I had of course met with incredulity..., but seldom with a will to incredulity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
— Marshall McLuhan
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
— James Russell Lowell
The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
— Colin Wilson
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
— Marshall McLuhan
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
— James Richardson
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
— Russell Lynes
The incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
— Tan Twan Eng
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.
— Jonathan Lethem
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
— Jules De Goncourt