Blindness Quotes

305 quotes by 260 authors

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do… — Godfrey Reggio
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony. — George Farquhar
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. — Adam Michnik
There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating… — Otto Schily
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. — Julia Ward Howe
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. — Mother Jones
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon… — Alexander Herzen
There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of… — Simon Blackburn
It's a blindness thing, faith. — Niall Williams
When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems… — Franz Schubert
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes. — Helen Keller
There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who… — Richard Rohr
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. — Apuleius
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! — Thomas Merton
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is… — William Osler
The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard… — Charles Handy
People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things… — Bill Gates

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