Blindness Quotes

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 when proved to be erroneous.

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

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

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

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

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

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

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.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

Haste is blind and improvident.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

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

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

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

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

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

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

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

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

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

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

Envy-Thy art blindness

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

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

I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.