Best 654 quotes in «blind quotes» category

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind.

The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

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.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.

There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favorites. I don't know, just seemed like everybody I heard could play better than me.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

The soul of a murderer is blind

The truth, as the light, makes blind.