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“For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.”

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Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.”

“I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'”

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Author:Ray Comfort

“Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.”

Men Emotional Blind Blind Faith

Author:David Suchet

“I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.”

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Book:February 1965: the final speeches

Source: February 1965: the final speeches

“I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.”

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Author:Mortimer Adler

“To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.”

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Author:Julian Ruck

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.”

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Author:John Lennox

“I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.”

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Book:Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism

Source: Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism

“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

“A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.”

“It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, we don’t need protections against it.”

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Author:James Bovard

“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

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Author:Mason Cooley