Blinds Quotes

• Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Meaning
  • Souls
  • Blinds

• Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opposition
  • Other
  • Blinds

• Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Words
  • Appearance
  • Reveal

• I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Blinds

• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Pain
  • Creatures
  • Escape

• Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

  

  Alfred Billings Street
  • Steps
  • Cloud
  • Blinds

• Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty
  • Materialism

• Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Relationship
  • Reader
  • Privacy

• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  

  Homer
  • Madness
  • Ruin
  • Trap

• Painting is an eye, a blinded eye that continues to see, and sees what blinds it.. ..this tiny little thing, which is nothing, which dominates life.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Blinds
  • Dominates

• Mom had told me about that—she called it a dangerous light. It’s beautiful to look at, but it blinds people, she said, that kind of light. It’s not good to be out in it.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • People
  • Light
  • Blinds