Blind Trust Quotes

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It's the only way.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

I believe in the honest feeling of the working people and in their unshakable loyalty to me. Therefore I forgive them.

Go with the science!.

talent to hoodwink the blind, and with a facility of speech well calculated to deceive the ignorant …

Put not your trust and confidence in kings and princes.

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

You never ask the public individual to decide. You can teach them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to decide.

The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.

I warn you not to accept military advice too easily.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.