Blindness Quotes
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.
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.
I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.
A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.
I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.
The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.
Islam, the religion of peace and any terrorism that happens, is not really Islamic or Islamic inspired. This is called a willful blindness. It's also political correctness.
Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.
There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.
Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.
To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past.
To eradicate blindness, let us create opportunities for everyone to get an education.
