It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Blindness is a handicap of mobility, deafness one of communication. Terrible as is loss of vision, it does not distance the blind… — Henry Kisor Copy Share Image
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
Some expressions cause others to choose a side based on assumptions of intentions not yet realized. When these dictating choices are given… — Luke Garner Copy Share Image
“Whether lying in bed, sitting, eating, on the toilet, pushing a stroller, walking the dog, shopping, walking, “listening” to others, talking, driving,… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Take for example providing a guide dog for a blind person. That's a good thing to do, right? All right. It is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“And you're blind?" Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored. Were you born that way?" No." How did you become blind, uh,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“There must be a government, said the first blind man I'm not so sure, but there is, it will be a government… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people.… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
“His first glimpse of Izzy Goodnight was to see her bathed in gold. The sunlight showed him, in blazing relief, a slender,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Too much reason limits man to the physical world and blinds his imagination to the greater things that may be. But too… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for… — John Elof Boodin Copy Share Image
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility,… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You will never know where is the shoulder for you to drop your tears, where is the hand that save you because… — FRHnLEAD Copy Share Image
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image