The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.
I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.
Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it was a scam. Even in '3 Idiots' I take a dig at them.
I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.