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Quotes About Blind

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
yet people do it out of the foolish risk-taking trait that pushes us to jump into such adventures blinded by the outcome.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
So we are blind to the possibility of the alternative process, or the role of such a process, a loop:
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.
~ Natasha Friend
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
In love with pleasure to the point of cruelty, See! I drag along also! but, more dazed than they, I say: What do they seek in Heaven, all those blind?
~ Charles Baudelaire
Westboro's fire and brimstone message was the air I breathed all my life. But after joining Twitter at the age of 23, I encountered people who challenged my beliefs and unearthed contradictions my blind faith had missed.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes
~ Tim O'Brien
If we find ourselves tempted to celebrate one approach over the other, we should remember the caution of the Chinese sage Confucius, who told his followers, "Study without thinking and you are blind; think without studying and you are in danger."       Formal
~ Kent Nerburn
But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…
~ Keri Hulme
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty. The
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
What is the message? Can faith bereft of specific beliefs speak understanding? If so, understanding of what? My concern is that the only thing Cox has to say to young people seeking spirituality is "Do good."13 But why should we do good? And what is the good if it is not somehow rooted in the nature and work of God? Cox's Age of the Spirit needs a normative Word. For while belief without faith is empty, faith without belief is blind.
~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Especially given the severity of some of her curses. God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey if she had her way. (Braden)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion.
~ Kirsten Beyer
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." In
~ Krista Tippett
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper, It promises light Like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears Like a lover.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~ Carole Lawrence
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
~ George Grosz
Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.
~ George R.R. Martin
Reading books by candlelight will make you blind." "I need the candlelight to see the words, ser." "Do you want a clout in the ear?
~ George R.R. Martin
It was baffling. These creatures. They were fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an art of it. They wrapped themselves in fears and wept at being blind. It was infuriating. It was enough to break a heart.
~ George R.R. Martin
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
~ George Shearing
Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.
~ Anonymous