Quotes About Blindness

Sometimes we cannot see and don't want to see because we are blinded. We need eye salve to put on our eyes. We cry out for revival, and yet God says, "I want to open your eyes so you can see what is before you. Revival has a face and a name. It lies bleeding on the roadside." If we want to see revival, we need to begin with the one in front of us.

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

i have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves these i would like to see but far more than sight i wish for my ears to be opened the voice of a friend the imaginations of mozart life without these is darker by far than blindness

What would be worse than being born blind? She replied, To have sight without vision.

The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

Grief made me blind and I thought that only I had suffered at the hands of death.

Blindness itself commends the excellence of sight.

When we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.

Kekesfalva had told me: that Condor had a blind wife whom he had been unable to cure, and had married by way of penance, and that this blind woman, instead of being grateful to him, was a continual plague to him. But he put his hand on my arm with a warm, almost affectionate gesture.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

In the land of the seeing, blind Lady Justice is Queen.

There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.

Danny pensaba que la inmensa mayoría de la gente del sector estaba cegada por sus intereses y era incapaz de ver los riesgos que había creado.

Man's inability to see the power of regression to the mean leaves him blind to the nature of the world around him. We are exposed to a lifetime schedule in which we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.