Blindly Quotes
210 quotes by 180 authors
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
— Anais Nin
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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
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I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.
— Taylor Swift
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
— Charles Darwin
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Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
— Tom Bissell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
Who Wrote These Blindly Quotes
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