Blind Quotes - Page 3

• Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

  Chanakya

  Education, Stupid, Book

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• The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Sarcastic, Atheist

  River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)

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• There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Religion, Orderliness

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Intuition, Empty

  Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer (1998). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

  Horatio Nelson

  Eye, Sometimes, Horatio

  1801 Said to Captain Foley during the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 Apr. Nelson disregarded the order of his superior, Admiral Hyde-Parker, to break off action and went on to win the engagement.

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• Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Taken, Flavor

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• An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Eye

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• I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

  Peter Straub

  Fate, Intuition, Wade

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• I have a right to be blind sometimes.

  Horatio Nelson

  Risk, Management, Sometimes

  1801 Said to Captain Foley during the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 Apr. Nelson disregarded the order of his superior, Admiral Hyde-Parker, to break off action and went on to win the engagement.

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• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Government, Asking

  "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.

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• Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Rights, Zeal

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• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  Adam Michnik

  Powerful, Deaf, Signals

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• The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Government, Way, Alleys

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Eye, Men, Land

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), December 12, 2010.

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• Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

  Cate Blanchett

  Eye, Racism, Acting

  "Police Warn Public to Avoid Certain Beaches This Weekend". "PM" radio programme, www.abc.net.au. December 16, 2005.

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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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• I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

  Christina Rossetti

  Eye, Might, Facts

  Christina Rossetti “Christina Rossetti”, Ardent Media

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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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• What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

  Havelock Ellis

  Atheism, Politics, Moral

  1923 The Dance of Life.

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• But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Destiny, States

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.126

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• Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

  James Thurber

  Night, Lasts, Trouble

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• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  Imre Lakatos

  Philosophy, Empty, History Of Science

  Imre Lakatos (1978). “Philosophical Papers”

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• In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Real, Illiterate Person, People

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• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  Otto Schily

  Iraq, Terrorist Groups, Problem

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