Disbelief Quotes

• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Humor, Government

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.82, Bantam

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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.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Believe, Work Out

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• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  W. Clement Stone

  Truth, Ignorance, Stupidity

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• It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Our Society, Belief, Dangerous

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2307, e-artnow

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• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Religious, Atheist

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Senses

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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.

  A. A. Milne

  Bible, Book, Golf

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

  Alan Lightman

  Knowing, Law, Long

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.37, Vintage

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

  Edward Norton

  Magic, Suspension, Bubbles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Character, Stories, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Art, Willing

  "A Gathering of Fugitives: New Essays (The Novel Alive or Dead)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1956.

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• The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

  Rodney Mullen

  Creativity, Obstacles, Barriers

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• We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.

  William Weld

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

  Frank Barron

  Choices, Belief, Refusal

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• That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Statistics, Poetic, Moments

  Biographia Literaria ch. 14 (1817)

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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.

  Roger Mudd

  Government, Tone, Reader

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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.

  Will Gluck

  Real, People, Neptune

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

  John Tillotson

  Doe, Belief, Opinion

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.270

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• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  Taylor Swift

  Colourful

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'". Interview with Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  Ed Wood

  Heard, Havens, Suspension

  "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

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• Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

  Robert K. Merton

  Inspirational, Faith, Science

  Robert K. Merton (1973). “The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations”, p.265, University of Chicago Press

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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.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Psychics, Comfort

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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.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Moving, Mean

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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.

  Arthur Lynch

  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

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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.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Believe, Book, Reading

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