Blind Trust Quotes

• 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.'

  Ray Comfort

  Kids, Dry Bones, Issues

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• I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

  Peter Straub

  Fate, Intuition, Wade

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.

  Bipasha Basu

  Hurt, People, Goes On

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• It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

  Emily Saliers

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• Don't believe everything you read.

  Molly Sims

  Trust, Confidence, Believe

  "Molly Sims Defends Josh Duhamel" by Brian Orloff, people.com. November 11, 2009.

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• 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

  Believe, Long, Mind

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• Believe everything you read

  Kurt Cobain

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Doubt, May

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• I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Algorithms, Patterns, Arguing

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Trust, Believe, Book

  1900 Speech on'The Disappearance of Literature' at the Nineteenth Century Club, 20 Nov. Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Speeches (1910).

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• The 'blind trust' is an age-old ruse. You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they're going to take advantage from me.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Giving, Age

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• On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Government

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• Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It`s the only way.

  Chuck Todd

  Way, Blind, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.

  Rachel Martin

  Independent, President, Eras

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.

  Kathleen Clark

  Political, Doubt, Voters

  "More Doubts About Frist's Stocks". www.cbsnews.com. October 11, 2005.

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• My advice would be that once [Donald Trump] enters office, there should be a separation, a blind trust or some kind of blind trust.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Office, Advice, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that and saying that there is not a blind trust.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Children, Transition, Experts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Experts on both sides, both parties say that, [Donald Trump] is going to turn over the operation to his three children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka. That's not a blind trust. According to experts we talked to, they're involved now in choosing the next government.

  Brian Ross

  Children, Party, Government

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

  Elizabeth George

  Art, Silly, Writing

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• It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

  Prince Charles

  Technology, Climate, World

  "Climate change sceptics are 'headless chickens', says Prince Charles" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2014.

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• To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Loving Life, Joy, Challenges

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.171, Random House

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• The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

  Bill Frist

  Mean, Eye, Ridiculous

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