Quotes About Blindness

he had lived within the narrow grooves of habit so long that he had learned to see in his dark world without the aid of eyes

We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth. Which truth? Any truth. All truth. her voice was solemn

A person who has lost his power of love has become blind to the beauties of life.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot seeThe pretty follies that themselves commit.

We are all guilty... [But the opportunity to make money] can draw a film across the eyes, so thick, that total blindness could do no more... A trade founded in iniquity must be abolished... let the consequences be what they will.

how interest can draw a film across the eyes, so think, that total blindness could do no more; and how it is our duty therefore to trust not to the reasonings of interested men, or to their way of colouring a transaction. William Wilberforce, 12th May 1789, Against the slave trade

He cried for a vision and the answer was his blindness. He

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.

I had never dated someone who wanted to be with me all the time, like he did. He seemed to be attentive to everything about me, noticing what I liked and didn't like, buying me presents. His ambitious, fiery spirit was intoxicating. However, like a drunk person, I was blind to the truth.

Like lemmings voting for steeper cliff faces

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Love is blind. God is Love. Ray Charles is blind. Therefore Ray Charles must be God"14 Tom Waits was already a believer.

regimes that self-destruct through collective blindness.

It's awful. Why did nobody see it coming?

What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.

Como él, millares de inocentes en el mundo viajaban en coches oscuros, con los ojos vendados, tragando su propia sangre, hacia un destino inicuo. El destino de la víctima es siempre el mismo: ¡terrible!

Ninguém, em si, eleva-se acima de seu tempo. Os sublimes não estão, absolutamente, entre nós - podem estar na Grécia antiga ou entre alguns bárbaros. Muita cegueira advém de se estar tão distante, mas o direito de fechar-se aos próprios sentidos não pode ser negado a ninguém. Seja-lhes concedido isso.

Slepilo je oružje protiv vremena i prostora; naš život je jedno jedino, ogromno slepilo, izuzev ono malo stvari koje saznajemo zahval?uju?i našim si?ušnim ?ulima – si?ušnim kako po njihovoj suštini tako i po njihovom domašaju. Vladaju?i princip u kosmosu jeste slepilo. Ono omogu?ava naporedno postojanje stvari koje bi bile nemogu?e kad bi videle jedna drugu.