Quotes about blind Faith

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. Votes: 4

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. Votes: 4

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Votes: 4

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Votes: 4

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. Votes: 4

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith. Votes: 4

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. Votes: 4

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. Votes: 4

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. Votes: 4

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. Votes: 4

Ive done a lot of movies, but my favorite was Blind Faith. Votes: 3

I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.' Votes: 3

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith Votes: 3

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true. Votes: 3

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Votes: 3

Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world. Votes: 3

One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing. Votes: 3

Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family. Votes: 3

I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live. Votes: 3

As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything because blindness will never give you reality. But you should be open like scientists are and whatever hypothesis I am putting before you, you have to feel it on your central nervous system. Votes: 3

I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"! Votes: 3

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself. Votes: 1

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. Votes: 1

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it. Votes: 1

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.' Votes: 1

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy. Votes: 1

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary Votes: 0

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism. Votes: 0

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism. Votes: 0

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. Votes: 0

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly. Votes: 0

There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another... Votes: 0

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. Votes: 0

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. Votes: 0

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind. Votes: 0

Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God. Votes: 0

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary. Votes: 0

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. Votes: 0

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself, Votes: 0

Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence. Votes: 0

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Votes: 0

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. Votes: 0

...this is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith... Votes: 0

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. Votes: 0

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility. Votes: 0

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose. Votes: 0

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests. Votes: 0

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith. Votes: 0

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat. Votes: 0

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. Votes: 0

Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith. Votes: 0

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?" Votes: 0

Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast. Votes: 0

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning. Votes: 0

I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds. Votes: 0