Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.
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.
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.
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.
Don't believe everything you read.
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
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