Blindness Quotes

305 quotes by 266 authors

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. — Emanuel Swedenborg
With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays; there let them… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness,… — Laurence Housman
What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love? — Gwen Harwood
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness… — Thomas Carlyle
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… — Victor Hugo
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. — Helen Keller
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my… — Olivia Thirlby
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them. — Helen Keller
Loneliness is a terrible blindness. — Christina Stead
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin. — Tom Stoppard
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth… — Daniel Kahneman
We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is… — Pope Francis
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely… — Darrel Ray
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based… — Leo Strauss
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view,… — Richard Wurmbrand
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that… — John Knox
Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and… — David Platt
Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a… — Philip J. Davis
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. — Gerald Massey

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