Blind Quotes

• We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Morning
  • Story
  • Version

• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

  

  Michelangelo
  • Spirit
  • Recognize
  • Skin

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Free
  • Dog
  • Dating

• I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Blind
  • Scenes
  • Preach

• I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Blind
  • Blessings

• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Blind
  • Figures
  • Hearing

• There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Tangible

• The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

  

  Dan Wakefield
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Searching

• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

  

  Vanity
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Blind

• So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Seek

• It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Words
  • Mysterious
  • Colors

• To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.

  

  Emma Bull
  • Good
  • Great
  • Eyes

• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Men
  • Real
  • Free

• We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Born

• Troubles stole my paradise was our love just blind? Look what you have done to me my love You can still win back my heart, love can find a way Got my love lying in your hands, oh Still I can't explain why you went away So, I ask again have you gonna stay I feel just the same, love might come again Emotion, emotion.

  

  Dieter Bohlen Modern Talking
  • Love
  • Emotion
  • Paradise

• So, blind to Someone I must be.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Blind

• Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Love
  • Vanity
  • Folly

• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Blind

• If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

  

  James Martineau
  • Possibilities
  • Self-Love
  • Dwell

• Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Very
  • Blind
  • Others

• All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Four
  • Holes
  • Worms

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