Quotation Explorer - 'Disbelief'

PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. - Ambrose Bierce
When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies. - John Granger
The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief. - Stephen Richards
A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust - Po Bronson
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. - Thomas Carlyle
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. - Dominic Riccitello
Kylie flopped back against the seat again, enjoying the look of disbelief on the vampire’s face a littletoo much. Would you like a name of a good doctor who will schedule your little snip-snip operation?she bit out. - C.C. Hunter
With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening. - Helen Oyeyemi
Let not those who hurry to fall into disbelief grieve you of such like them to disbelieve without course. - Auliq Ice
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. - W. Clement Stone
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. - Franklin P. Jones
I know I won't live long. So I'm going to stand strong and not sit down in disbelief, hold my head up high and not waste my time wondering why my life has to be so rough and unfair. I'm going to strive and live everyday for the better until that day arrives. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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. - Abraham H. Maslow
He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. Your love for him has damaged your senses.And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence - Maria V. Snyder
that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds. - W.E.B. Du Bois
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. - Mahatma Gandhi
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