Blind Enthusiasm Quotes

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.