#blind

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#before #blind #bogart #color #could

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. ↗

— Voltaire

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The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ↗