Best 654 quotes in «blind quotes» category

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

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

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

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're 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 genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

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

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

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 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 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 only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

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.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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

The soul of a murderer is blind

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

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

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

They say love is blind, which makes me braille.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.