Best 177 quotes in «blindness quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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'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.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

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.

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

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

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

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

A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.

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]

A blind man will suffer himself to be led, though by a dog, or a child.

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.

Across the street at the New Orleans headquarters of the Lighthouse for the Blind—a two-story building attached to a four-story stucco lighthouse—another Christmas party was under way, and Wright watched as the sightless guests arrived. Then, before his eyes, a curious scene unfolded. As they were greeted by their hosts, the blind whites were escorted to a large room at the front of the house, whereas the blind Negroes were taken to the rear, where they stayed. Separated. Transfixed, Wright had to look twice before it dawned on him: 'They couldn’t see to segregate themselves

After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.

A lie, like a pill, is easier to swallow when you don't think about it.

And you're blind?" Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored. Were you born that way?" No." How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

Anak mata Emak mati sebelum Emak.

All dark and comfortless.

And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?

– C’est ce receveur, expliqua le conducteur. – Ah ! dit Amadis. – Il aime pas les voyageurs. Alors, il s’arrange pour qu’on parte sans voyageur et il ne sonne jamais. Je le sais bien. – C’est vrai, dit Amadis. – Il est fou, vous comprenez, dit le machiniste. – C’est ça… murmura Amadis. Je le trouvais bizarre. – Ils sont tous fous à la Compagnie. – Ça ne m’étonne pas ! – Moi, dit le conducteur, je les possède. Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois. Vous avez un couteau ? – J’ai un canif. – Prêtez.

AUNT SHADIE: I see you - and don't worry, you're not white. ROSE: I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English. AUNT SHADIE: White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.

Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it’s easy to excite them; it’s easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement—another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name.