Best 177 quotes in «blindness quotes» category

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

Envy-Thy art blindness

Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.

Haste is blind and improvident.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

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

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

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

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

After her sister's visit, Marthe's head was brimming with new pictures: the fields of lavender at Valensole, all the subtle grades of blue and purple; the way twilight melted them all into one; the precise hues of the liquid distilled from each plant, the shape and color of the bottles, and a new understanding of the surroundings where she was learning her craft. Just as plant variations were bred together to crete new hybrids- like the lavandin from the delicate wild lavender- this was what she did with the descriptions her sister had supplied; she grafted them on to the sights she remembered from childhood and reinvigorated them.

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]