Definition of Disbelief

Disbelief

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

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Disbelief Quotations

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn Manson

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
Rex Stout

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
Gillian Anderson

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
Edward Norton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
Joseph Bologna

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Disbelief Translations

disbelief in German is Unglaube
disbelief in Italian is miscredenza
disbelief in Norwegian is tvil, vantro
disbelief in Swedish is stark misstro

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