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Blind Belief Quotes

Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins.

Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins.

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Religious, Blind Belief, Superstitions
Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 517, 2005.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

James Randi
Blind Belief, Comforting, Intellectual

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

Max Lucado
Faith, Godly, Blind Belief

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Blind Belief, Atheism, India
Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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

Richard Dawkins
Simple, Blind Belief, Curiosity
Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.219, Oxford University Press

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

Meryl Streep
Faith, Blind Belief, Acting

The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.

Daniel O'Sullivan
Running, Blind Belief, Magic
"A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Spring, Men, Blind Belief
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 81, 1799.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Mason Cooley
Blind Belief, Literature, Kind

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Blind Belief, Goal, Understanding
Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.

Emily Giffin
Fate, Blind Belief, Sorrow
Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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