Incredulity Quotes

Incredulity Quote of the day

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Incredulity is not wisdom.

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

If you can't show it, you don't know it.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.