When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as… — Philip J. Davis Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
“There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life,… — Benjamin Nelson Copy Share Image
Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice.” — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image