Quotes about Blindly

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake. Votes: 3

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not. Votes: 3

Man blindly works the will of fate. Votes: 1

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Votes: 1

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. Votes: 1

Just as you can't blindly follow fashion, you can't follow fitness, either. Votes: 1

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. Votes: 1

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background. Votes: 1

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. Votes: 1

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Votes: 1

Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas. Votes: 1

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. Votes: 1

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. Votes: 1

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave. Votes: 1

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures! Votes: 1

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. Votes: 1

I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director. Votes: 1

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations. Votes: 1

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. Votes: 1

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question. Votes: 1

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur. Votes: 1

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant. Votes: 1

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them. Votes: 1

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety. Votes: 1

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. Votes: 1

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why. Votes: 1

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. Votes: 1

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good. Votes: 1

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. Votes: 1

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it. Votes: 1

Don't blindly follow any leader. Votes: 0

Right now, we are doing it blindly. Votes: 0

I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural. Votes: 0

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful. Votes: 0

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.. Votes: 0

I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me Votes: 0

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men Votes: 0

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly. Votes: 0

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. Votes: 0

There are moments in life when we need to trust blindly in intuition Votes: 0

Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself. Votes: 0

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. Votes: 0

You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion. Votes: 0

Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination Votes: 0

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders? Votes: 0

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. Votes: 0

The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens. Votes: 0

Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another. Votes: 0

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic. Votes: 0

Fly blindly, trust is full of magic. Let your wild voice guide the way. Votes: 0

When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly . Votes: 0

Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting. Votes: 0

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. Votes: 0

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] Votes: 0

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. Votes: 0

...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters. Votes: 0

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. Votes: 0

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are. Votes: 0

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background Votes: 0

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal. Votes: 0

Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible. Votes: 0

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister. Votes: 0

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. Votes: 0

It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings. Votes: 0

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? Votes: 0

I would much rather have you believe in something I don’t agree with than to accept everything blindly. Votes: 0

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals. Votes: 0

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong. Votes: 0

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion. Votes: 0

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Votes: 0

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. Votes: 0

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. Votes: 0

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality. Votes: 0

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters. Votes: 0

I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place. Votes: 0

You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow. Votes: 0

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do. Votes: 0

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently. Votes: 0

Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal. Votes: 0

Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow. Votes: 0

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others Votes: 0

Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. Votes: 0

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created. Votes: 0

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance. Votes: 0

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning. Votes: 0

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world. Votes: 0

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective. Votes: 0

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. Votes: 0

Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence. Votes: 0

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see. Votes: 0

...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.. Votes: 0

Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations. Votes: 0

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith. Votes: 0

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought. Votes: 0

We are survival machines "“ robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Votes: 0

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. Votes: 0

I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning. Votes: 0

From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary. Votes: 0

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence. Votes: 0

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide. Votes: 0

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Votes: 0

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. Votes: 0

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. Votes: 0

Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over. Votes: 0

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on. Votes: 0

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other. Votes: 0

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life. Votes: 0

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp. Votes: 0

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction. Votes: 0

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the questions... And I could never believe blindly. Votes: 0

For example, I wear clothes I buy at trendy shops because I don't care much about clothing. If someone wants to create a trend around clothing, I'll happily and blindly follow. Votes: 0

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls. Votes: 0

That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything. Votes: 0

Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success. Votes: 0

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience. Votes: 0

My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly. Votes: 0

With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it. Votes: 0

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little. Votes: 0

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend! Votes: 0

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience. Votes: 0

Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts. Votes: 0

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself. Votes: 0

Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated. Votes: 0

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain. Votes: 0

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination. Votes: 0

Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare. Votes: 0

She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again. Votes: 0

If I am darkness, then I have learned it backwards. Darkness must be in the right, and you my dear, along with nearly all others, have been blindly wandering within the light of the wrong. Votes: 0

If I am darkness, then I have learned it backwards. Darkness must be in the right, and you my dear, along with nearly all others, have been blindly wandering within the light of the wrong. Votes: 0

You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing. Votes: 0

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world. Votes: 0