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Quotes About Blindness

Judging others makes us blind, but love gives us sight.[220] When I judge, I am blind to my own evil and to the grace granted the other person. But in the love of Christ, disciples know about every imaginable kind of guilt and sin, because they know of the suffering of Jesus Christ.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One feels in fact, when talking to him, that one is dealing, not with the man himself, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like, which have taken hold of him. He is under a spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused and exploited. Having thus become a passive instrument, the fool will be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
~ Don Marquis
Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
~ Al McGuire
We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
~ Jerry Bridges
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement. In
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.
~ Ernest Becker
Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as you really are and he is not blind anymore and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling...
~ Ernest Hemingway
Why I felt that impulse to devil him I do not know. Of course I do know. I was blind, unforgivingly jealous of what had happened to him. The fact that I took it as a matter of course did not alter that any. I certainly did hate him. I do not think I ever really hated him until he had that little spell of superiority at lunch--that and when he went through all that barbering. So I put the telegram in my pocket. The telegram came to me, anyway.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He's blind, and nearly deaf in the bargain," Mrs. Martello said proudly. "And he's going in surgery just as soon as they get him all fixed up for it. He's got a malignancy.
~ Eudora Welty
Truly, great is pride and blindness, so that the blood dripping from the scaffold would be called justice. - Epigraph to the 5'th chapter
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis, 9:6 Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota of Corvo CHAPTER FIVE 'What seeks the Witcher on my territory?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota of Corvo
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
~ Andy Warhol
The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Lo peor que tiene la tristeza es que es ciega; y lo peor que tiene la cólera es que ve demasiado.
~ Angélica Gorodischer
Lo peor de la tristeza es que ciega y lo peor de la cólera es que ve demasiado.
~ Angélica Gorodischer
Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues, who seem always to be perceiving another dimension, where everything is statues.
~ Angela Carter
To love you has blinded me from paying attention to my goals. Somehow love has made me soft and stupid.
~ Angie Cruz
One day I heard Ray Charles on the radio and I found out he was blind. I thought, 'You know what, if there's room for Ray, there might be room for Jose.'
~ Jose Feliciano