Blind Man Quotes - Page 4

• The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Beauty, Men, Sight

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• To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.

  Kirk Cameron

  Bullying, Men, Ideas

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• I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Healthy, Blind

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• The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Eye, Reality, Men

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.124, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

  Martin Amis

  Love Is, Men, Blind

  Martin Amis (2010). “London Fields”, p.223, Random House

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• In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dark, Men, Past

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• Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Past, Men

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• We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Practice, Giving

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: 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. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Wise, Men, Play

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• Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Motivational, Being Strong

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• A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Men, Mind

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• I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Reading, Humor

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Two

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

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• And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Daughter, Home

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.30, Book House

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• There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

  Avi

  Men, Eyelashes, Blind

  Avi (2012). “Beyond the Western Sea #1: Escape From Home”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115

  Maria V. Snyder

  Real, Men, Visitors

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• Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

  William Plomer

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Plomer (1973). “Collected poems”

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• The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Order, Long

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 54), 2003.

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• A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

  Alvin Toffler

  Men, Civilization, Trying

  "The Third Wave". Book by Alvin Toffler, 1980.

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• We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

  Mother Teresa

  Flower, Writing, Humble

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• It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

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• As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Science, Men

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king.
  [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

  George Herbert

  Kings, Men, Kingdoms

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