Quotes About Blindness

To philosophise with open eyes is to philosophise in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

In the kingdom of the blind, Amelia recited to herself as she trudged along— —the one-eyed man is king, Gamache read.

Ironic, really, that from a blind they should suddenly see so clearly.

I hope it snows early next term and then I can try out the hilariosity of my new idea vis-à-vis glove animal and snow blindness.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

My tears were for my own loneliness, my own blindness.

I'm sure I've dated my share of loonies in the past. Sometimes I realized it early on and sometimes not that fast. Love can be blinding, even for therapists. Plus, crazy can be fun sometimes. Don't you think?! Maybe that's just me!

Both types of diabetes accelerate the aging of our bodies. Having diabetes greatly speeds up the development of atherosclerosis, or cardiovascular disease. Diabetes also ages and destroys the kidney and other body systems. Forty thousand amputations per year are due to complications of diabetes. It is the leading cause of blindness in adults and of kidney failure.

I would have seen it all, had I been able to see, but I could see none of it because I had spent my entire life blind and deaf and mute and ignorant, devoid of any senses save the one that governed my sexual compulsions and that had brought me to this terrible place from which, I was certain, there could be no return.

But methinks, I see by this, that Satan will use any means to keep the soul from Christ; he loveth not an awakened frame of spirit; security, blindness, darkness, and error, is the very kingdom and habitation of the wicked one.

He got so close to her heart. The love was so blind, that she didn't realize he tore her apart. The love made her fall for him over and over again. He hurt her and tossed her aside. She's madly in love with him. She's just waiting for him to realize.

Being blinded by your secrets was so much easier then closing my eyes for the truth.

I regret everything and I'm sorry to the people who I ain't give a chance too cuz I was too blind and didn't realize he ain't love me.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness.

Do I want to be loved in spite of?Do you? Does anyone? But aren't we all to some degree? Aren't there important parts of all of us which must be, so to say, gazed past? I turn a blind eye to that aspect of you and turn a blind eye to that aspect of me.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

silver nitrate eyedrops. This almost completely eradicated the disease. But it turns out that silver nitrate is nasty. It can cause chemical burns and temporary blindness itself.

He was the product of what his father had taught him to be, who in turn was the product of what his father had taught him to be and she wondered how far back in sheer misogyny and greed the Cleeks actually went.  She had married blind into this, impressed by his self-possession as a teenager, even more impressed by him in bed — or in fact for the first year or so, in the back seat of his father's Caddy.  Her first and only lover.

Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

Those who find the world something worthy of praise or who congratulate themselves for having been born in it are either intellectually blind or morally perverse.

Oh! fools and blind, not to know the Master whose servant nature is.