Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Fanatical. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Fanatical Quotes And Sayings by 90 Authors including Jim Payne,Terry Goodkind,Edward Gibbon,Ben Bova,Edward Abbey for you to enjoy and share.
The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right.
No one is as fanatical as a convert.
Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.
A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.
E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
They were a fanatically independent people, much addicted to intrigue, treachery and murder, and that among their other national traits was an intolerance of rulers (or, if it came to that, of any form of authority whatsoever, other than their own desires).
Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.
Single-minded to the point of recklessness
Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
Fanaticism was so popular. There had to be a reason for that, didn't there? Some vast reward to the end of thinking, some great bliss to the blessing of idiocy.
I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known - there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, for I will not change
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage.
The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.
I like passionate fandom.
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.
Passionate and their passion becomes contagious.
frugivorous also.
The fanatic's mindset: Kill them all and let God sort them out - I've got no worries where I stand with the Lord.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.
Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt
People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
She's diabolical.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming ... (some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed in such a way that they can never be shown to be false.
There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Fanaticism leads to counterfanaticism, which is just as much to be feared.
If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.
Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith.
passion is all consuming
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go ...
I'm an intense person.
The nice word for you is methodical. Obsessive-compulsive is the meaner phrase, and one you've truly earned.
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
All passion is madness.
Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt
Passionately obsessed by anything we love
an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love ...
Fanatics don't wanna see anything from another standpoints.
A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.
incurable lover of the grotesque
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans.
One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.
I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
I couldn't decide who was more annoying, the fanatic or the cynic.
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
I've got an adjective that just fits you.
One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.
A patient, methodical sort of madman. The worst kind.
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression
To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.
ardent persistence in devotion,
Alexander was in the grip of a passion for perfection. He was not aware of how closely, how perilously, perfectionism and fanaticism are related.
Patriotic to the point of arrogance, quick to take offense at any seeming slight of his beloved country and government
nihilistic - but
Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor
My fans like the rebel in me.