Blindness Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Life, Littles, Facts

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.150, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

  John Berger

  Dogma, Form, Pursuit

  "The bloody outcome of two worlds at war" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2005.

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• It is we that are blind, not fortune.

  Thomas Browne

  Eye, Blind, Fortune

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

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• Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ambition, Mind, Towers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.35

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• Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

  Meg Cabot

  Boys, Self, Flames

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• ...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

  Cameron Dokey

  Kind, Worst, Unkind

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Community, Survival

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• Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Opportunity, Color, Racism

  Patricia Hill Collins (2004). “Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism”, p.178, Routledge

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• M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

  Anne Carson

  Smart, Very Smart

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.20, Vintage

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• Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives. It starts as a little thing, small enough to burrow into your pores, take up excruciating residence in the dark recesses of your brain. Its name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hate, Dark, Oil

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Ignorance, Certain, Tolerable

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Kindness, Flower

  'Love and Age' (1860)

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• He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Men, Appreciate

  "Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature".

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• Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Christian, Ignorance, People

  Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.43, Desiderius Erasmus

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• It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

  Michael Faraday

  Principles, Should, Obstinate

  Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.474

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• Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

  Jean Cocteau

  Animal, Pet, Outstanding

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• Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

  Helen Keller

  People, Womens Rights, Deafness

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• All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

  John Green

  Men, May, Rich

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• The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

  Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

  Eye, Kissing, Soul

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• It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Thinking, Generosity

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• I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Life, Wall, People

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.235, Hachette UK

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• Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Wife, Doe

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Enlightening, Blind

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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