Blinded Quotes

• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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  The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Women, Sight

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• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Spiritual, Morning

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 25, 2010

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• So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Suffering, Saved

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.174

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• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Inspiration, Incentives

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• Most of us are so focused on what we don't have that we're blinded to what we do have.

  Steven Furtick

  Focused

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• I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

  David Levithan

  Past, People, Focus

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

  Charles de Lint

  Hate, Cutting, Sight

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Miracle, Blind Love, Each Day

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• The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Motivational, Being Yourself

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• But love is blind and lovers cannot see

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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• Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

  Martha Beck

  Love, Blind, Said

  "Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic".

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• love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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• We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

  Olive Schreiner

  Thinking, Feelings, World

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Sin, Inevitable

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• We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Jobs, Doe, Form

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• To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

  John Milton

  Able, Bears, Blind

  John Milton, George Burnett (1809). “The Prose Works of John Milton: Tenure of the magistrate (continued)”, p.357

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• Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.

  William J. Seymour

  Father, People, Salvation

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• There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain, and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse that they seek. Sometimes, it is better to keep your eyes on the gutter for the fear that, by looking up, you might catch a glimpse of them, black shapes against the sun, and be blinded forever.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Eye, People

  John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

  Julius Caesar

  Hate, War, Blood

  "We're not all citizens of the US yet". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

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• Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Optimism, Owl, Littles

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• Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master... his course through life will be neither safe nor pleasant. My only regret is that I was so long blinded by my pleasures, my vices and pursuits, and the examples of others that I was kept fr...om seeing, admiring, and adoring the marvelous light of the gospel.

  Francis Scott Key

  Jesus, Regret, Believe

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• Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
  Think each in each, immediately wise;
  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
  What this tumultuous body now denies;
  And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
  And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wise, Eye, Thinking

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.114, The Oleander Press

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