Blindness Quotes

305 quotes by 260 authors

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings… — Michel de Certeau
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our… — Sydney J. Harris
It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not simply… — Unknown Author
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately… — David Hume
Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks… — Thomas Chalmers
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . .… — Ellen Glasgow
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. — Tony Snow
To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a… — William Pickens
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served… — Michael Pollan
Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when… — Saint Augustine
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of… — Helen Keller
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing… — Blaise Pascal
I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of… — Thomas McGuane
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. — Peter De Vries
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied… — Kit Williams
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. — Michael Medved
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses;… — Ernst Mach
Haste is blind and improvident. — Unknown Author
Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary… — Cilla Black

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