Blindly Quotes
210 quotes by 183 authors
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case.…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger…
— Malcolm X
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I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now…
— Malcolm X
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Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
— Paulo Coelho
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If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret…
— Bram Fischer
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Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from…
— Gautama Buddha
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Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
— Gautama Buddha
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who…
— Gautama Buddha
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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion…
— Joan D. Vinge
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You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown…
— Giorgos Seferis
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The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger,…
— Andre Breton
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We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day…
— Al Gore
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For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom…
— Maurice Herzog
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.
— Richard Branson
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men…
— W G Sebald
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One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
— Janos Bolyai
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Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has…
— Childe Hassam
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right…
— Pierre Charron
Who Wrote These Blindly Quotes
183 authors contributed a total of 210 Blindly Quotes, led by these top contributors: