Blindness Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Blindness

Blindness Quotes & Sayings

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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 eye on my nest egg, if you will. — Judd Nelson

If the blind must lead the blind, it is as well
that the leader knows he is. — R.D. Laing

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action. — Max Lerner

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families. — Bob Allen

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. — Peter De Vries

Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you. — Marissa Clarke

Prejudice creates blindness; it is too busy hating to think. No matter how justified it might feel, prejudice will shackle you." "But — Jonathan Renshaw

LEAR: ... yet you see how this world goes.
GLOS.: I see it feelingly. — William Shakespeare

He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness. — Henry Ward Beecher

Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer, — Jose Saramago

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him. — C.J. Anderson

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God — Blaise Pascal

Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. "

"How would you know? — Laura Ruby

It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17 — Henryk Sienkiewicz

It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England. — John Fowles

Jesters do oft prove prophets. — William Shakespeare

Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours. — Dorothy McFalls

The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone. — Reginald Heber

An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence. We're blind to our blindness. — Steven Johnson

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?
... The term was faith. — Barry Lyga

Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people. — Helen Keller

He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal. — Victor Hugo

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. — William Carlos Williams

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness. — Victor Hugo

Haste is blind and improvident. — Livy

Too often we develop a blindness for all of the wonderful things in life. — Robert A. Giacalone

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.' — Debbie Macomber

Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce. — John Fante

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

Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village ...
Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue! — John Rachel

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. — John Lennon

Blindness took away my sight but gave me clarity of vision. It took blindness to teach me the meaning of love and friendship. — Lisa Fittipaldi

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness. — Daniel Kahneman

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 nowhere at all. — Barbara Kingsolver

Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived. — Dianna Hardy

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! — Thomas Merton

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target. — John Edgar Wideman

All dark and comfortless. — William Shakespeare

The fear of blindness created a moment's vacuum, serving as a relaxant for my exhausted and overheated brain. — Kenzaburo Oe

It's a blindness thing, faith. — Niall Williams

Mind-blindness is the breeding ground for racism. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours. — John Milton

If that's what you call truth in this wicked world,
no wonder why you're so desperate to defend it. — Toba Beta

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. — Ruta Sepetys

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin. — C.J. Mahaney

To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past. — Debasish Mridha

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is seeing something that isn't there. THOMAS HARDY — Erin Kelly

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. — August Wilson

And the blind man said to the deaf man, Do you see what I hear? — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Not seeing the divine glory of Christ in the gospel is blameworthy. It is not an innocent blindness, but a culpable love of darkness. "They — John Piper

God the Father and the Son don't wish you to remain blind. It is men that put blindness upon other people for the purpose of control and manipulation. — Sunday Adelaja

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. — Idries Shah

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. — Blaise Pascal

We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things — Marisha Pessl

There it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. — Anne Carson

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. — Neil Gaiman

All violence is based on blindness, on a lack of reflection and empathy. — Azar Nafisi

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. — Charles Dickens

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common. — Bryant McGill

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness — Stephenie Meyer

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others. — Marty Rubin

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes. — Helen Keller

Your blindness to my downfall,
Has gone too far to be a joke,
As I stand ablaze before you,
And you tell me you smell smoke. — Erin Hanson

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness? — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ... — Helen Keller

To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. — Anthony Doerr

Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside. — Carla H. Krueger

When life's got you down, keep your head up ... you can't see the ground anyway — Nicole Rae

Love is not blind but it leads to blindness. — Auliq Ice

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations. — Patrick Dixon

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way? — James Joyce

a man will never choose to be healed from his blindness until he first realizes he cannot see. — Randall Arthur

Use your dick, don't be one. — Marissa Clarke

How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision. — John Crowder

Happiness is so rare that our mind can turn somersaults to protect it. — David Henry Hwang

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. — Apuleius

To eradicate blindness, let us create opportunities for everyone to get an education. — Debasish Mridha

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. — George Eliot

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness — Margaret Atwood

The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty. — Robyn Davidson

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said. — Gregory Maguire

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable. — J.M. Coetzee

But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
pp. 445-446 — Ivan Goncharov

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love? — Gwen Harwood

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary. — Marie Rutkoski

The very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst. — Patricia J. Williams

Loneliness is a terrible blindness. — Christina Stead

In every war, there are always elements of blindness. — Shimon Peres

To be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness. — Cameron Dokey

Thy light so bright the world does illuminate from thee but even men with healthy eyes can choose not to see. — Raneem Kayyali

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Jesus if you could cure our son's blindness that'd be great ... And we'd love some shelves over there. — Jim Gaffigan

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life. — Joaquin Rodrigo

A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. — Alexander Pope

The world was what it was. And no amount of anger, or hatred, or self-loathing, or stubborn blindness would change it. — Laurell K. Hamilton