Blind eye Quote by Vali Nasr

“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct us, that…

— Immanuel Kant

“And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic, which speaks…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,…

— David Hume

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our…

— Plutarch

“Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

— Vera Nazarian

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties,…

— David Hume

“Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me…

— Tabish Khair

“The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.”

— Joseph Roth

“(...)'Of all the human body parts, the tongue is the most dangerous to one's soul and well being', to which quote, the priest would…

— Adriana Renescu

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has parpared for them that…

— Loretta Ramey