Blind Acceptance Quotes:

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic, Politics And War, Militarism

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

- Rajneesh

topic: Believe, Long, Mind, Non Believer, Blind Acceptance

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Loyalty, Mean, Acceptance, Blind Acceptance, Honest Criticism

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Patriotism, Patriotism And Nationalism, Anti Patriotism

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

- George McGovern

topic: Love, Country, Memorial Day, Remember Memorial Day, True Patriotism

And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.

- James Dillet Freeman

source: James Dillet Freeman (1955). “Be!”

topic: Honesty, Acceptance, Stronger, Blind Acceptance

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.

- Pablo Casals

source: "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

topic: Country, Men, Brotherhood, Inspirational Diversity, Country Love

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

- George Orwell

topic: Acceptance, Literature, Awareness, Blind Acceptance, Unconditional Acceptance

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

- George McGovern

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dream, Peace, Military, Soldiers At War, Military Soldier

Don't believe everything you read.

- Molly Sims

topic: Believe, Blind Faith, Checkouts, Wear Sunscreen, No Trust

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

- Deborah

topic: Responsibility, Benefits, Accepting, Choose Wisely, Freedom To Choose

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

- Mary Barnett Gilson

topic: Leadership, Acceptance, Intelligent, Blind Acceptance, Acclaim

Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Acceptance, Dark, Men, Free Gifts, Blind Acceptance

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

- Julian Baggini

topic: Philosophy, Acceptance, Argument, Blind Acceptance

See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Pain, Believe, Fighting, Blind Acceptance

It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science. A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work.

- Rudolf Bultmann

source: "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann (pp. 3-4), 1984.

topic: Acceptance, Past, Thinking, Blind Acceptance