Blindness Quotes

305 Blindness quotes by 260 unique authors

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
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

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