Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over read more

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.

Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.

As any action or posture long continued will distort and
disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled read more

As any action or posture long continued will distort and
disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and
contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as
none at all, but not quite.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as
none at all, but not quite.