Best 177 quotes in «blindness quotes» category

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

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

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

Envy-Thy art blindness

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

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

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

Haste is blind and improvident.

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

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.

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

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.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

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.

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

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

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

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