Kim Brooks

All interesting, worthwhile humans suffered and struggled and overcame adversity of one sort or another. Pain is constructive. Misery can be useful. I believed this the way I believe the sun rises in the east. Then I had children, and I slowly began to disbelieve and disavow it.

American Writer

Neale Donald Walsch

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.

American Author

George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

British Author

Thomas Carlyle

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Scottish Philosopher

Hector Hugh Munro

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

British Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

French Novelist

P. J. Harvey

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

British Musician

Louis L'Amour

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Mason Cooley

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Michael Novak

American Philosopher

Disbelieve often suggests a strong emotional resistance to accepting something as true.

Emotional Skepticism

'Disbelieve' may imply a negative attitude towards the speaker or the information presented.

Associated Negativity

Use 'disbelieve' when expressing doubt about commonly held facts or well-known stories.

Contextual Use

 I've got this experience, I'm in the world. I can't be just a bunch of cells." Well, people used to believe there was a life force to be living, and we now know that's really not true at all. And there's really no evidence, other than that people just disbelieve that cells can do what they do. So some people have fallen into the pit of metaphysical dualism,

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 world they told me the first time all our animals are roadkill they've died of natural causes and of course you don't really believe that but you don't want to disbelieve it you want to say okay

Disbelieve

Emotional Skepticism

Associated Negativity

Contextual Use

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