Blindness Quotes

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

Haste is blind and improvident.

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

Jesus if you could cure our son's blindness that'd be great... And we'd love some shelves over there.

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind