Blind Quotes

They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

A lot of people say I can't do it because I'm blind, or I have red hair, or my feet are too big. Get the right team around you, don't set boundaries and go for it.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

I've always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

Easy street is a blind alley.

How did you find me here? If I was blind, I would see you. Stay with me. Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.