"At first you can stand the spotlight in……" — Charles Lindbergh
"At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them."
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Charles Lindbergh
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104 Quotes by Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh has 104 quotes on this site.
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[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives…
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Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire…
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These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and…
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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But…
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The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory…
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Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots…
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Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
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We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to…
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In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe…
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Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science…
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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career…
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— William Faulkner
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