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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it… — Thomas Carlyle 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image