“A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [ Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Hope is a bundle of positive thoughts. If you will bind yourself with positive thoughts, nobody can defeat you. Even if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein… — Jack London Copy Share Image
To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; and the fumes; the wreaths of… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“In the most extreme cases, I would pull a big pair of glasses out of my pocket and carefully slide them up… — Marie Nimier Copy Share Image
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stands out for its frank discussion of his… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who… — Carlos E. Asay Copy Share Image
“Our imagination can be an umbrella that does not stop the rain but allows us to walk through it. Imagination transforms the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Blindness brought with it a million adjustments and losses and emotions. But, there really was this unshakeable sense, deep within me, that… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight;… — John Keats Copy Share Image
People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part -… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
“The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy.… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image