Blind Acceptance Quotes

#1. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.

David W. Earle

#2. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.

George S. McGovern

#3. 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.

Dag Hammarskjold

#4. Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Julian Baggini

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

Mary Barnett Gilson

#6. A blind acceptance of absurdities leads to the undertaking of atrocities.

Margo Kelly

#7. And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.

James Dillet Freeman

#8. Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Carl D. Anderson

#9. I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.

Rob Portman

#10. Complete salvation is being able to be so intimate with God that He's your very best friend.

Andrew Wommack

#11. It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity.

Philip Massinger

#12. In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.

Liam Neeson

#13. A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

Charles Darwin

#14. To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

Martial

#15. I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

David Byrne

#16. I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

Randy Newman

#17. No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

Susan Vreeland

#18. Losing Foxen was bad. It would leave her blind and lonely in the dark. Being trapped beneath the pipes and choking out her life was awful too. But neither of those things were wrong.

Patrick Rothfuss

#19. I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

Saul Bellow

#20. Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

Zadie Smith

#23. The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

Costa Georgiadis

#24. The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

Peter Lake

#25. Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

Bo Derek