Blind Quotes

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 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.

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

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

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too, Because only God knows what you'll go through.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

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

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

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

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

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.