#incredulity

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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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

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