Unthinking Acceptance Quotes

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason …

If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot.

The majority of business people are sheeple.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.