Blindly Quotes

210 quotes by 180 authors

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave. — Michael Shermer
I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic. — Taylor Swift
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if… — P D Ouspensky
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,… — Aldous Huxley
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the… — Madeleine L'Engle
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae… — Robert Burns
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men — Charles Darwin
Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom. — Tom Bissell
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it… — Theodore Dreiser
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements,… — Anne Rice
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive… — Kate Chopin
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no… — Joseph Conrad
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your… — Christopher Paolini
Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits… — Wislawa Szymborska
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into… — Ann Patchett
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd… — Douglas Coupland
...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently… — Edwin A. Abbott

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