Blind Man Quotes

• Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

  Mark Twain

  Relationship, Kindness, Men

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• Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Men

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• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

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• Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Men, Way, Blind

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• Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

  Robert Hunter

  Men, Hands, Blind

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Civilization

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

  Marilyn Manson

  Men, Blind, Like You

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• Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Men, Perception

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• Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Men, Two, Rooms

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Men, Numbers

  "Diagnosing 'Emily Rose'" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 18, 2005.

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• The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched.  That is the way we can hope to know God.

  Kent Nerburn

  Buddhist, Men, Elephants

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.118, New World Library

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• Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Motivational, Beautiful, Eye

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• I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Dream, Morning, Men

  Bret Easton Ellis (2005). “Lunar Park”, p.174, Vintage

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• Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.

  William Peter Blatty

  Eye, Men, Sun

  William Peter Blatty (2011). “The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

  Gershom Scholem

  Men, Language, Speak

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• [Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

  Izaak Walton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Flower

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• I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Frogs

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

  John Calvin

  Men, Light, Way

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• I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, Blind

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Light, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail

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• A blind man. I can stare at him
  ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
  No, he is in a great solitude.
  O, strange joy,
  to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
  No, my thirst is greater than before.

  Denise Levertov

  Men, Joy, Solitude

  Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”

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• A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.

  Rajneesh

  Dirty, Flower, Eye

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• I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.

  Philip Guston

  Dark, Men, Hands

  "Transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966". "Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics" by Clifford Ross, pp. 73-75, 1990.

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• A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Blind, Incomplete

  Victor Hugo (1887). “Notre-Dame. With Illus. by Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Johannot, and Others”

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• In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

  Tupac Shakur

  Time, Men, Mind

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me Now, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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