Blindness Quotes

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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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• Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Vision, Doe

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• There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Dark, Helping Others

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• Our very eyes
  Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sometimes, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.47

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• There's none so blind as they that won't see.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Blind

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.446

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• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Eye, Journey, Thinking

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

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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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• Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

  Jose Saramago

  World, Blind

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

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• Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Understanding, Mathematics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel
  the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Ignorance, Darkness, Alertness

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• 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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• We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

  Paul Haggis

  Pride, Thinking, Knows

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• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Retirement, Self

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• The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

  Helen Keller

  Attitude, People, Blind

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.105, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

  Margaret Cho

  Mean, Doe, Blind

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• Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

  Ayn Rand

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

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• The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Community, Blind, Feds

  Julia Ward Howe (1900). “Reminiscences: 1819-1899”

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• Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blind, Fortune

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.187, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Women, Loneliness

  Christina Stead (1966). “Dark Places of the Heart”

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

  Loretta Young

  Dumb, Blind, Deaf

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• I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, People, Blind

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 326), 1995.

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• Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

  Thomas Otway

  Justice, Lame, Blind

  Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”

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