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Quotes About Incredulity

I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.
~ Jonathan Lethem
For some time they talked of reformation; those who apparently desired it most favoring it only for their own profit, and the people who were to be the gainers expecting little and saying nothing. For a long time these poor people, either from distrust, incredulity, or despair, hesitated to ask for their rights: it is said that the habit of serving had taken the courage away from those old communes, which in the middle ages were so bold.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Un pensamiento sin conciencia de sus limitaciones es un pensamiento incompleto. Mantener una actitud crítica saludable significa no aceptar ideas o doctrinas sin haberlas sometido antes a un análisis cuidadoso donde se pueda evaluar su verdad, su falsedad o las dudas que de ellas surgen. Las personas que no le temen a la crítica son inconformistas y poseen la dosis de incredulidad necesaria para acceder a todo tipo de información sin escandalizarse ni ofenderse.
~ Walter Riso
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
~ Walter Scott
Sam was stunned. "A wheelchair? A wheelchair? What kinda cop you know goes around in a wheelchair? How
~ David Archer
There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.
~ James Gordon Brown
A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he said.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
He goggled at her as if she'd said something very strange about beetroots.
~ Douglas Adams
My dear Bobby, did I understand you to say that someone had offered you a thousand a year? A thousand?" "Holed it in one, Dad," said Bobby. "It's impossible," said the Vicar. Bobby was not hurt by this frank incredulity. His estimate of his own monetary value differed little from that of his father. "They must be complete mutts," he agreed heartily.
~ Agatha Christie
Yes, I remember the one you mean. All a lot of hooey, though.
~ Agatha Christie
Oh really? You're cold?
~ Alan Dean Foster
Why, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I'll be a snake's daddy. I'll be a mickey finn at a woman's-club lunch.
~ Raymond Chandler
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.
~ Richard Dawkins
Jules was frozen with incredulity. In truth, he could not speak. He was touched by the display of honor in two country squires, and by the humbling - in truth hilarious - definitive evidence that some things were beyond his control. And life knew what was best for him better than he did, and had brought it to him, not with graceful precision, but with magnificent, ridiculous poetry.
~ Julie Anne Long
If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.
~ Berti Vogts
Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?
~ Anne Stuart
Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself.
~ Jason Arnopp
Why, I never did believe it
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Earl, who seemed to be in an almost perpetual state of amazement at the things he said, shook his head again.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
I hate golf! I still can't believe Alice Cooper plays golf!
~ Lemmy
Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-
~ Rick Riordan
Falconer walked up and said, "I just want to say right now that this is the stupidest shit I've ever been involved in.
~ David Wong
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.
~ Ally Carter