Fanaticism Quote by Lionel Blue Download Open image “It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.” — Lionel Blue ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fanaticism Know Possible Result You
Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image