#disbelief

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#genius

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#speechless #stunned #nobility

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #cathedral #culture #disbelief #doing

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#given #great #great men #his #littleness

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything. ↗

— Dave Winer

#create #deliberately #disbelief #exploded #infrastructure

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

— Tom Robbins

#business #disbelief #force #government #into

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

#bit #buy #character #comes #credibility

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#disbelief #faith #moment #poetic #suspension

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#disbelief #down #dressing #gave #go

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

— W. Clement Stone

#disbelief #ignorance #lack #regardless #truth