Blind Quotes
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I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
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You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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I am aware of the changes, but in no sense am I believer that we live in a post-racial society. That's a description of our inheritance and that is theirs, which is inescapable. It is doesn't matter if you are from New England or Mississippi. You're an American. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, brown, or Asian. It is part of American society. You'd have to be blind, deaf, or dumb not to know it. The emphasis on color or the fear of it, is all part of the same dark flower. I am trying to point to that and to bring it all the way back from Senegal.
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Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
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Okay... That's still blind-making.
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I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
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I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.
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Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
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[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
