Blindness Quotes

305 Blindness quotes by 260 unique authors

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way… — Jorge Luis Borges
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,… — John Jay Chapman
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness. — Debbie Macomber
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness? — Eugenio Maria de Hostos
The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by… — John Elof Boodin
...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed… — Philip Yancey
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people. — H. L. Mencken
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is… — C.S. Lewis
Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to… — Rajneesh
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. — William Wordsworth
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself. — Benjamin Franklin
Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others. — Benjamin Franklin
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger… — Benjamin Franklin
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind. — William Shakespeare
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse. — William Shakespeare
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square… — Virginia Woolf
The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense.… — Bill Frist
Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy. — Stephen King
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch. — Lord Chesterfield
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like… — Ben Jonson
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! — John Milton

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