Blinds Quotes
131 quotes by 115 authors
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and…
— Roseanne Barr
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
— Janet Morris
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them…
— Richard Dawkins
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
— William Hazlitt
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
— William Dean Howells
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone…
— William Faulkner
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It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say,…
— Robert E. Lee
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The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
— Eric Hoffer
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Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.
— Moses ibn Ezra
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Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.
— Tim Lebbon
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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
— Jonathan Haidt
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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
— Jonathan Haidt
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If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is,…
— Heber J. Grant
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Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.
— Benjamin Franklin
Who Wrote These Blinds Quotes
115 authors contributed a total of 131 Blinds Quotes, led by these top contributors: