Blind Quotes

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

I have a right to be blind sometimes.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else is too scared to compete next to him.

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.