Best 177 quotes in «blindness quotes» category

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 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.

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 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.

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

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

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.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

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

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.

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 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.

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.

All dark and comfortless.

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.

Anak mata Emak mati sebelum Emak.

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

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.

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.

A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.