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Blindness Quotes

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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.
Michael Faraday

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2.
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
Daniel Kahneman

3.
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.
Paul Bourget

4.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
J. M. Coetzee

5.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
Jonathan Swift

6.
A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
Ingrid Newkirk

7.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
Charles Dickens

8.
There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
Ellen Hopkins

9.
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

10.
Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.
Joaquin Rodrigo

11.
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Jose Saramago

12.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
Tertullian

13.
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.
Richard Rohr

14.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Mother Jones

15.
They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
John Milton

16.
Haste is blind and improvident.
Livy

17.
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.
Paul Haggis

18.
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
George Santayana

19.
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
William Carlos Williams

20.
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.
Anais Nin

21.
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
Blaise Pascal

22.
There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
Art Carney

23.
...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
Cameron Dokey

24.
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

25.
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
Emanuel Swedenborg

26.
Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
Ann Voskamp

27.
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
Anne Carson

28.
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!
Thomas Merton

29.
They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
Victor Hugo

30.
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.
James Patterson

31.
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.
Oprah Winfrey

32.
Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.
Patrick Dixon

33.
I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.
Jennifer Rothschild

34.
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.
Myrtle Reed

35.
A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.
Bob Allen

36.
It's a blindness thing, faith.
Niall Williams

37.
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
Peter De Vries

38.
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

39.
Envy-Thy art blindness
Aftab Alam

40.
Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness
Stephenie Meyer

41.
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.
Samuel Johnson