Blinding Quotes

113 quotes by 103 authors

He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and… — Salman Rushdie
When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed. — Ty Cobb
What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. — Godfrey Reggio
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a… — Iris Murdoch
The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was… — Ronald Ross
Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding — Townes Van Zandt
Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love is stripped away,… — Lionel
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against… — John Ross Macduff
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… — Thomas Paine
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its… — Thomas Sowell
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious… — Bertrand Russell
When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with… — Maximus the Confessor
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the… — John Singer Sargent
True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity;… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. — James Huneker
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is… — John Muir

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