Blindfolded Quotes

• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

  Jodi Picoult

  Ignorance, Walking Through Life, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

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• Justice is a blindfolded woman.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Justice

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• No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

  Franz Kafka

  Matter, Staring, Stills

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text”, p.184, Schocken

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• We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Past, Realizing

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• That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Walks, Amour, L Amour

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's nothing like trying to spoonfeed Tortellini Carbonara to a blindfolded naked giggling woman.

  Ludacris

  Trying, Naked

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• I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ocean, Hundred, Miles

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• The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

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• I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move.

  Katie Price

  Girl, Moving, Littles

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• To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

  David M. Shoup

  Rings

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• Blinded following the Blindfolded

  Daniel Handler

  Following, Blinded

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• Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Decision, Heaven, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Liberty, Comfort

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

  Robbie Savage

  Soccer, Football, Moon

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• We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

  Milan Kundera

  Eye, Past, Glances

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• Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

  Steve Albini

  Wall, Nice, Trying

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• Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

  J. I. Packer

  Knowing, Understanding, Soul

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• Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Way, Spirit, Holy

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• Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Eels, Snakes

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• They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the lives of your betters. It makes you wise in some ways, but it can make you a blindfolded fool in others.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Knowledge, Missing

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

  J. I. Packer

  Study, Blunders, Disregard

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.19, InterVarsity Press

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• Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

  George Lucas

  Guy, Littles, Necks

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