Quotes of: Blind-faith Keyword

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

Karen Kain

Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early ...

The Da Vinci Code

Besides (said he) do you not observe what a keen Edge Christian Faith puts upon the ill-nature of Divines, when they are disputing about matters of Religion? 'Tis common for Philosophers, Lawyers, Physicians, &c. to differ about matters which concern...

An account of the growth of deism in England

The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to flo...

I, Pencil: My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Ch...

After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only...

Milan Kundera

An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in...

Deval Patrick

I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself - not theologically, as to the why and wherefore of his death - but as he showed himself in his life on earth, full of grace, love, beauty, tenderness and truth. Then the needy heart c...

George MacDonald

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Chance and Necessity

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

Golden

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Blindness

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

I learned there were lots of realities in the world.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

It’s a fact that when it comes to dating, men are all visual. Well, except blind men.

$3.33

Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.

Allan Quatermain

Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.

The Huntress

The eyes of the lovers are blind while those of the grieving are wide open.

Sun Stealer: The Knowing

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The Nature Of Natural History

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

Words of Radiance

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jennifer Egan