Blind Quotes

• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Wise
  • Deaf
  • Fevers

• Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Blind
  • Eye For Eye

• But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Heart
  • Look
  • Blind

• In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • People
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Good
  • Blind
  • Badgers

• Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.

  

  Eric Sykes
  • Control
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Eye
  • Lovers
  • Blindness

• Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Blind
  • Painful
  • Embarrassing

• Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Ignorance
  • Blind
  • Judgments

• "Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

  

  Barry Malzberg
  • Universe
  • Understanding
  • motivation

• In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

  

  Nelson Rodrigues
  • Player
  • Ball
  • Sees

• One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Reading
  • Leader

• I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Blind
  • Blessings
  • Frustrations

• They’re writing what we’re all living, you ’d have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see the drama in the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

  

  Alex Gansa
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Blind

• History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

  

  Garth Greenwell
  • People
  • Blind
  • Invisible

• You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Years
  • Looks
  • Stuff

• Is he legally blind? He's the last person on earth who deserves any sympathy because people like him had no sympathy for the people they were guarding.

  

  Efraim Zuroff
  • Sympathy
  • Deserves
  • Guarding

• Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Blind
  • Pitch
  • Park

• Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

  

  Carlton Pearson
  • Fear
  • Belief
  • Obedience

• I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates.

  

  Whitney Port
  • Interesting
  • Dating
  • Horrible

• The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Train
  • Difficulty
  • Convince

• Nature never writes a blind hand.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Writing
  • Hands
  • Blind

• When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Nature
  • Blind
  • Buddha

• After that he began to talk excitedly about the plays of Beckett: Ah, how he liked those guys buried in the ground up to their necks; and how beautiful the statement was about the fire that the present kindles inside you; and, even though among the thousand evocative things that Maddy and Dan Rooney said he had had a hard time picking out the precise point cited by Lila, well, the concept that life is felt more when you are blind, deaf, mute, and maybe without taste or touch was objectively interesting in itself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Interesting
  • Fire
  • Statement

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