Disbelief Quotes - Page 7

• There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.

  Peggy Noonan

  Communication, Grateful, Believe

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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.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, People, Fiction

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• Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Choices, Generations

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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."

  Tryon Edwards

  Ignorance, Greek, Inquiry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1423, Ravenio Books

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• I think I'm always very naïve. With 'Kill Your Darlings' and 'Horns', I'm like, "Why wouldn't everybody love this?" But I guess it's going to divide people in some ways. But if you're willing to go with it and suspend your disbelief, you're going to get something amazing and something unlike anything else.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: uproxx.com

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• As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Passion, Mind, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.26

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• The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I step into a character, people have to be able to suspend their disbelief; they have to be able to divorce me from Hermiona. And not having everyone know every single intimate detail of my entire life is part of me trying to protect my ability to do my job well.

  Emma Watson

  Character, Divorce, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a narrative and someone is listening to that. Often the nature of the relationship is determined by how well they tell the story, or someone else's ability to suspend disbelief, or infuse into their narrative something which they may not even be aware of.

  Atom Egoyan

  People, Listening, Determined

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Ally McCoist

  Feelings, Fans, Closure

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• Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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

  William Friedkin

  Art, Imagination, Needs

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.

  Jonathan Groff

  Laughter, Simple, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Self, Credit

  "Greenspan Admits Free Market Ideology Flawed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 24, 2008.

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• The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

  Joseph Bologna

  Bologna, Film, Stage

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• It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Ignorance, Men, Years

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• No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Church, Attendance

  Writing for the court, Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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• In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in the world because of the movie we're watching that is real. That has enormous stakes for the whole society, and we, by the act of watching, complete the story.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Real, Drama, World

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sarcastic, Sibling

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

  Edward Norton

  Heart, Leaves Of Grass, Whole

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• I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Thinking, People, Fantasy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

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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.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sins Not, Atheism, Nine

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.24, Ignatius Press

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• Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

  Laura Riding

  Spiritual, Religion, Vacancy

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• I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

  Marc Maron

  Bullshit, Curiosity, Fascination

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Curiosity, Conformity, Skepticism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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