Blindness Quote by C. S. Lewis

“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they…

— C.S. Lewis

“Willful blindness” may hinder us from discerning the critical fault lines in the narrative of our life. Our memory may obliterate then the crucial…

— Erik Pevernagie

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

— Robert E. Howard

“In absence of seeing the future, we often blindly interpret the present”

— Renita Bryant

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We read the future by the past.

— Alexander Crummell

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind…

— Erich Fromm

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that…

— Robert Greene

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

— Garth Stein