Blind Man Quotes - Page 3

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

  Rumi

  Eye, Men, Soul

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Men, Light, Blood

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• Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

  George R. R. Martin

  Brother, Kings, Husband

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• A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.441, Wordsworth Editions

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• A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Soul, Blind

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• Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

  David Seabury

  Men, Desire, Way

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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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• Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Enemy, Hazards

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.198, Vintage

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• Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action

  Mother Teresa

  Flower, Writing, Men

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• A man without the Holy Ghost is a blind man. He may not know it but that's what blindness is all about. A blind man is not just someone who cannot see, he can see alright, but all he sees is darkness. It's the same thing in the realm of the spirit. A blind man in the realm of the spirit is one who doesn't know the things of the spirit, he can't see the things of the Spirit of God. But when the Holy Spirit comes into your life, you will no longer be blind because He will cause you to see what others can't see.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Men, Darkness, May

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.22, LoveWorld Publishing

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• Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

  Lucan

  Men, Heaven, Blind

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• Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.

  Andrea Levy

  Fashion, Men, Blue

  Andrea Levy (2010). “Small Island: A Novel”, p.383, Macmillan

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• The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

  Tom Waits

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  "Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits". Interview with Joan Anderman, www.boston.com. May 22, 2008.

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• When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Men, Light

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• A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?

  Henny Youngman

  Men, Doors, Want

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• It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Running, Hurt, Children

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Cat, Dark, Men

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• It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch,be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?

  George Berkeley

  Mistake, Thinking, Men

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.283

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• Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Willpower, Blind

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.74

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• Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Wife, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Reading, Men

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• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Men, Light

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