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Not - please understand me - that I was convinced that I had made a mistake; no, I was merely unconvinced that I had not made a mistake. I was, in other words, confused.
'Unbelievable' is the stupidest word in the dictionary.
By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.
Doubt is the only appropriate response for human beings.
Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.
Unbelief is a belief.
We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.
But don't you believe in anything?I exclaimed in exasperation.
If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
discombobulation
Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.
When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living.
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.
I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?
Wonder , or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
Lack of Faith"
Yes,
even when I don't believe -
there is a place in me
inaccessible to unbelief,
a patch of wild grace,
a stubborn preserve,
impenetrable,
pain untouched by the sleeping body,
music that builds its nest in silence.
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment
I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.
doing with the puzzled
Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.
I stood dumfounded, founded in dumbness.
The only person I can amaze is me.
Stunned cannot adequately describe how I feel right now. I am bursting with emotion - a volcanic mixture of happiness and sadness and adoration -
Give me wonder, baby.
Flash.
Give me amazement.
Flash.
Mystery, like faith, defies human logic.
Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.
We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know
not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. "It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity." She
Happiness is speechless.
I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.
Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.
Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.
Your disbelief cures nothing.
I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a ... thrill ... and a joy
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Nothing amazes me anymore.
I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.
You mortals baffle me.
I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.
That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.
IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.
Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.
How does it make you feel to not get what you expect?"
"It disappoints me. I don't like to be disappointed.
The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.
Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.
Incredulity is not wisdom.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.
When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
Belief" is a bullshit word!
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Disappointment is the end of an illusion.
For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.
Surprise comes from defying expectations.
a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.
Surprised? That was like saying the Middle East was a little tumultuous. That the ocean was big enough to swim in. That Channing Tatum was a wee bit attractive. Surprised was a paltry word for what I felt.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.
Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
I stood dumbfounded, founded in dumbness.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Unhappy is a nice word.
I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me.
The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.
Every single day I'm shocked.
I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry
I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart
God knows what its name was
that tears started to my eyes.
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
He didn't want to believe it, couldn't force
My dad had once told me a definition of faith and I had not forgotten it: 'Faith is to believe something you do not see. The result of that faith is to see what you believed'.
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief
Some things were beyond understanding.
You must learn to discipline your disappointment.
One can't believe impossible things.
Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
I was shocked. A dying word, "shocked." Few people have been able to use it well since Claude Rains so famously said, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," as he pocketed his winnings in Casablanca. But it's the only word for excitement and alarm of this intensity.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?
Faith is continually discarding the absurd, even in the face of the unknown.
I am mad, and I embrace it.
He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
perceptibly with anger. "I
I think I'm honored. Or speechless. Maybe something in between there.
I'm overwhelmed by the stunning incredibility of the truth.