Unquestioned Belief Quotes

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

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

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.