Top 131 Discredit Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
Fake news was manufactured to the tune of millions of dollars in an attempt to discredit my story. — © Clare Rewcastle Brown
Fake news was manufactured to the tune of millions of dollars in an attempt to discredit my story.
I'll be doing God a discredit if I didn't come out here and showcase all this ability that he gave me and try to give the fans entertainment and be who I am.
When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.
For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.
W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
The goals of Russia since 1917 have been to destroy capitalism, discredit democracy, and show that Communist collectivism was the greatest social and political system in the world.
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far. — © Alfred P. Sloan
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.
One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.
I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.
If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!
How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
Donald Trump and his personal attorney want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever Bob Mueller comes up with. They're essentially engaging in a scorched-earth litigation strategy that is beginning with trying to discredit the prosecutor.
I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.
Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.
It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician. — © Ben Jonson
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
I don't like it when religions take it to the point where they discredit all other religions, because how could one sector of people have figured it out and know that that's it? But I do think that there's so much beauty in a lot of the stories or scriptures.
We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.
Today the discredit of words is very great.
A lot of people want to discredit me.
The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.
I'm not one of those politicians, to my probably discredit, who thinks very far ahead. It has to feel right to me and not be about a careful plot and plan.
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.
There's always a way to pull back and discredit ourselves, but once you just shut that out and start doing it, you realize things about yourself that you never thought were possible.
I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline. — © Scarface
I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
I do have some very strong thoughts on Glenn Simpson, who is one of the founders of Fusion GPS, based on his conduct in trying to discredit me and Sergei Magnitsky.
I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.
Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.
Let's give discredit where discredit is due.
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.
Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
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