Unquestioning Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning…
— Robert Heilbroner
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Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
— Barbara Kruger
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Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a…
— Kingsley Amis
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Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget…
— Paulo Coelho
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Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that…
— Edward Snowden
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A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.
— Pat Barker
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Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my…
— Edmund Gosse
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on…
— Isaac Newton
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The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.
— Emanuel Celler
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The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.
— Neil Postman
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I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . .…
— David Henry Hwang
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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And…
— Steve McFadden
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The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to…
— David Icke
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming change. As soon…
— Stefan Molyneux
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The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by…
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the…
— Jasper Fforde
Who Wrote These Unquestioning Quotes
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