Fanaticism Quote by William Warburton

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

— William Cowper

One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't start as…

— Karyn Kusama

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into…

— Frederick Lenz

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

— Dean Koontz

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of…

— Eric Hoffer

“If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice, those whom…

— Jeremy Bentham

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

— George Orwell

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

“What is a fanatic? One who believes passionately and acts desperately upon what he believes. I was always believing in something and so getting…

— Henry Miller

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

— George Santayana

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with…

— Edwin Percy Whipple