Blind Faith Quotes

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It’s really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That’s a marketing trick. It’s also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.

Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

Believe no one unless he follows your religion

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

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

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.