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title: "10 Thought Blind Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [“...perhaps he thought that when the blind people could no longer see the images, the images should not be able to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-saramago/perhaps-he-thought-that-when-the-blind-people-could-no-longer-see-the/)

[José Saramago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jos-saramago/)

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> [Someone at the Fringe thought I was blind in the first year because that was how little I had my eyes open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivo-graham/someone-at-the-fringe-thought-i-was-blind-in-the-first-year-because/)

[Ivo Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivo-graham/)

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> [Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-wonder/do-you-know-it-s-funny-but-i-never-thought-of-being-blind-as-a/)

[Stevie Wonder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-wonder/)

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> [“I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-bayard/i-ve-often-thought-a-blind-man-could-find-his-way-through-london/)

[Louis Bayard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-bayard/)

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> [I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronnie-milsap/i-remember-my-uncle-and-my-father-telling-me-that-my-mother-didn-t/)

[Ronnie Milsap](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronnie-milsap/)

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> [I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/i-am-not-here-only-so-that-the-blind-might-see-but-to-teach-those-who/)

[Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/)

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> [“Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind." (The other 'quote' has it backwards.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kwame-nkrumah/thought-without-practice-is-empty-and-action-without-thought-is-blind/)

[Kwame Nkrumah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kwame-nkrumah/)

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> [“But, my God, how could I have thought it? How could I have been so blind, when everything had been taken by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/but-my-god-how-could-i-have-thought-it-how-could-i-have-been-so-blind/)

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/)

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> [I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronnie-milsap/i-remember-my-uncle-and-my-father-telling-me-that-my-mother-didn-t-2/)

[Ronnie Milsap](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronnie-milsap/)

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> [I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/i-simply-state-that-i-m-a-product-of-a-versatile-mind-in-a-restless/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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