The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
“All human eyes are useless. You see only what you expect to see, and nothing more; and what is the use of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
“A conversation between Ellie and her mom: [Ellie] "I guess it's true that love makes you blind." "No," my mom said. "It… — Courtney Allison Moulton Copy Share Image
Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined;… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
People of relatively low intelligence can be morally wonderful if they desire the right and the good (not necessarily under the description… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I never taught a blind/deaf chick to read, but somehow I've managed to turn Scrubs into a watchable show. That may not… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When they was on back of a nickel like Monticello. When the underworld had to be smarter than Donatello. No honor amongst… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to,… — Michael Oher Copy Share Image
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
“it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself… — P.T. Barnum Copy Share Image
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“We may compare this mad, deluded world to a company of poor, blind men, dancing about the brink of a very dangerous… — John Fox Copy Share Image
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
He had the kind of face only a mother could love. If that mother was blind in one eye, and had that… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind,… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“That woman was always very good at not seeing what was in front of her. In my experience, people who lie to… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Blind alleys mean you're going the wrong way. They're there so you can turn around and even try something else. Something even… — Kat Yeh Copy Share Image
It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen… — Mychal Thompson Copy Share Image
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image