Blindness Quotes

305 Blindness quotes by 260 unique authors

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing… — Richard Dawkins
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of… — Democritus
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be… — Barbara Kingsolver
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. — Tom Lehrer
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. — John Milton
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so… — Lewis Mumford
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal! — Horatio Nelson
I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an… — Judd Nelson
A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured! — Ingrid Newkirk
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.… — Anais Nin
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not… — Eric Ries
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not. — Tertullian
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. — Loretta Young
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare
That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings… — Thornton Wilder
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. — John Lennon
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning… — Laurie Halse Anderson
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times… — Jose Saramago
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical;… — John O'Donohue
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.… — Stephen Colbert
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the… — Aldous Huxley
blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. — Jose Saramago
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom.… — Bruce Sterling

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