Quotes About Blindness

El amor de Beth era la luz en medio de su ceguera. Tocarla era el cielo que no necesitaba ver para conocer. Y si ella tenía tanta fe en él, también era su valor y su propósito.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.

Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and backTurn upward from the desk, when the human engine waitsLike a taxi throbbing waiting,I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

The blind man navigates by stars behind the daylight.

I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

The surest way to get your head blown off is to have it up your ass.

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.