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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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• I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Limits, Worthy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.177

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• It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

  Alex Karras

  Strength, Success, Courage

  "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

  Glenway Wescott

  Love, Love You, Romantic Love

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• Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Golf, Games

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Book, Grandmother

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• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Sonnet 27

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• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.

  David Hume

  Nature, Children, Science

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.452

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• Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

  Robert Breault

  Hate, Eagles, May

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• Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Fall, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, George Hersh (1985). “Always Coming Home”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Knowledge, Light, Proud

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.

  Fred Allen

  Sarcastic, Eye, Pins

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• But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Spring, Science

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Men, Dumb

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• It is we that are blind, not fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Eye, Fortune, Blindness

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.36

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• I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Fun, Ignorance, Years

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• A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Vision, Definitions

  Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage

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• I wish I could remember the first day,
  First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
  If bright or dim the season it might be;
  Summer or winter for aught I can say.
  So, unrecorded did it slip away,
  So blind was i to see and to forsee,
  So dull to mark the budding of my tree
  That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Famous Love, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti”, p.192, Penguin UK

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• Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Funny Friend

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• Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Mistake, Office

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [35]

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• Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• 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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• We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

  Ugo Betti

  Art, Philosophy, Fate

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Fate, Compassion, Fantasy

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Time of the Uprooted: A Novel”, p.271, Schocken

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Fate, Reality

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