Blindness Quotes

305 Blindness quotes by 260 unique authors

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is… — Cameron Dokey
I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is… — Josephine Winslow Johnson
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible… — Philip Yancey
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people. — Helen Keller
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness,… — Ayn Rand
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own… — Daphne du Maurier
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them… — Michael Faraday
There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. — Ellen Hopkins
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable. — J M Coetzee
Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of… — Ellen Hopkins
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more — Anne Carson
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity. — Patricia Hill Collins
The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most… — Orson Scott Card
...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness. — Cameron Dokey
Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness.… — Meg Cabot
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness,… — Desiderius Erasmus
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what… — Stephen King
And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck… — Julian of Norwich
But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our… — Thomas Love Peacock
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to… — Marquis de Sade
Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated… — Christopher Hitchens
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception… — Baron d'Holbach
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye. — Jacques Derrida

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