Unquestioning Quotes

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

We are not final because we are infallible; we are infallible because we are final.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

I will not be conflicted. Period. I commit that to you all.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

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

Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

He is my President …. When the President asks you to do something, you say yes.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told.

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.

When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don't support Velcro shoes.

The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn't be concerned about why He said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don't try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn't try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain. We spend useless time.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.