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“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India

“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.”

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Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

“With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.”

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Book:Baby Proof: A Novel

Source: Baby Proof: A Novel

“Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.”

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Author:James Randi

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

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Book:The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.”

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Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works