Top 1200 Blind Belief Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

The Strength of a hero is not in her abilities. In her weapons. These things are important, but they are not the source of her strength. The source of her strength is in her belief in an idea – the idea that those who are strong, and those who are able, protect those who are not, and those who cannot protect themselves. The idea that the good, and the right, will triumph. She is willing to put herself in harm’s way – in mortal danger – to prove her belief in this idea.” “That it is the duty of those who have within themselves the power, and the gift, to help others.

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this statement is not the issue. To say that the world is a sacred place is to make a statement about values, not facts. It’s a statement about what you mean by ‘sacred,’ just as ‘Money can’t buy happiness’ is a statement about what you mean by ‘happiness.’ To put it all very simply, animism isn’t a belief system, it’s a value system.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

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

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

It's important for us all to elect people not just on blind party loyalty. We've got to really examine what candidates say and do.

The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.