Quotes About Blind

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, said John [Adams]. Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

In a world darksome as this'n I believe a blind man ort to be better sighted than most.

The horrors of the past lose their edge, and in the doing they blind us to a world careening toward a darkness beyond the bitterest speculation.

Still, I've got to hand it to you. As the trick said to the blind hooker.

No, said the blind man. I do not mean in this house. I mean here. Among us.

These parched beasts had died with their necks stretched in agony in the sand and now upright and blind and lurching askew with scraps of blackened leather hanging from the fretwork of their ribs they leaned with their long mouths howling after the endless tandem suns that passed above them

If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn't even know what direction they should turn in. What then did it matter that she knew reading and writing, or that he had been caught out in a plot against his overlord?

He understood now that the Romans had preferred death to exile. He could sympathise now with Ovid on the Danube, hungering for Rome and blind to the land around him, blind to the savages.

The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son sleeps, The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep? And the murder'd person, how does he sleep?

Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

El respeto ciego por la autoridad es el mayor enemigo de la verdad.

Indeed, the unsophisticated investor who is realistic about his shortcomings is likely to obtain better long-term results than the knowledgeable professional who is blind to even a single weakness.

This strange thing must have crept Right out of hell. It resembles a bird's foot Worn around the cannibal's neck. As you hold it in your hand, As you stab with it into a piece of meat, It is possible to imagine the rest of the bird: Its head which like your fist Is large, bald, beakless, and blind.

The moon was bright; he stood at the edge of his own skull's platform; desire to hate and desire not to hate struggled in him. In the moonlight, visible, audible, arm in arm, talking and laughing, they came. He saw them pass; his eyes grew blind. Presently he turned and went home. That night when at last he slept he dreamed, more clearly than ever before, of his steady descent of the moon-bright rope.

The blind spot under his muzzle explains why a horse might accidentally eat your fingers instead of the treat that you are offering.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous, and fortune is so blind that in a crowd in which there is perhaps but one wise and brave man it is not to be expected that she should single him out.

Mahler:] I thought you were on sick leave for the rest of the month. I am, said Van Veeteren. It's just that I find it hard to turn my back on things. And also to turn a blind eye.

I had to remember about open, blind, knowing, unreserved, unambiguous, unconditional love—naked love—before any of it could make sense again. I had to find it the many places it hid, drag it out in the open and wrap it all around me,

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen.

Oh, the world needs those standing on the Bridge, For they know how Eternity reaches to earth In the wind that brings music to the leaves Of the forest: in the drops of rain that caress The sleeping life of the desert: in the sunbeams Of the first spring day in an alpine meadow. Only they can blow the dust from the seeing eyes Of those who are blind.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.