Blindness Quotes
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Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
William Wordsworth
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Jesus if you could cure our son's blindness that'd be great... And we'd love some shelves over there.
Jim Gaffigan
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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
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They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
Victor Hugo
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Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
Blaise Pascal
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What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
Will Harvey
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It's a blindness thing, faith.
Niall Williams
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...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
Cameron Dokey
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Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.
Edward Joseph Young
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As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.
David Dixon
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To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
William Pickens
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The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.
Max Lerner
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A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.
Bob Allen
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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
Charles Dickens
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My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
Helen Keller
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The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
John Calvin
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
Christina Stead
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You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.
Carlos E. Asay
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Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.
Adrien Brody
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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
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
George Eliot
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
Seneca the Younger
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The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!
African Spir