Blind Quotes - Page 7

• Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

  Don Henley

  Moving, Inspire, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

  Herb Kohl

  Views, Justice, May

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• Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

  Robert Wyatt

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Thinking

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• Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.

  Virginia Woolf

  Pain, Eye, Here I Am

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4270, Delphi Classics

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• With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

  Richard Ney

  Real, Eye, Race

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• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Stars, Rocks, Dying

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• I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

  Charlie Sheen

  Shots, Fallen, Blindness

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• Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

  Robert Toombs

  Years, Deaf And Blind, Territory

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Eye, Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

  Marla Runyan

  Attitude, People, Negativity

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• What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

  Francis Galton

  Nature, Kindness, Lying

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• Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Disappointment, Today

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2016

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• Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, People, Interest

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• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  Imre Lakatos

  Commitment, Intellectual, Virtue

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Mean, Eye, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Running, Kings, Women

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• All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

  Theodor Adorno

  Decay, Satire, Force

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.211, Verso

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Jealousy, Envy

  Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

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• It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

  Ben Harper

  Easter, Hate, Fall

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• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  Karl Marx

  Freedom, Philosophical, Consciousness

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• I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

  Loretta Young

  Dumb, Deaf, Deaf And Dumb

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Forgiving, World

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• The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Xmas, Real

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Travel, Home

  Oliver Goldsmith (1809). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher: Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country”, p.24

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