Blindness Quotes - Page 16

• In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Men, Errors

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

  Bill Frist

  Mean, Eye, Ridiculous

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• How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Sick, Blind

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• Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

  Stephen King

  Stories, Pay, Blind

  "Stephen King's New Work Hits the Web". abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2000.

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• Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

  Ben Jonson

  Sports, Lust, Decay

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

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• To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

  Margaret Barber

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, People, Littles

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

  Archibald Alexander

  Stupid, Unyielding, Sin

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

  Della Reese

  Husband, Want, Blind

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• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  Vinton Cerf

  Web Content, Overcoming, Different

  "Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled" by Judy Heim, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2000.

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• The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Government, Way, Blind

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• Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Heritage, Philosopher

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.442

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• Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos

  Men, Light, Evil

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• The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.

  John Elof Boodin

  Pain, Space, Unity

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• Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

  Juvenal

  Money, Men, Greed

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• The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crime, Cures, Blunders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

  Debbie Macomber

  Teacher, School, Said

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• Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Expression, People

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• Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

  H. L. Mencken

  Class, People, Leader

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• We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Book, Reading

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• Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Love Is, Logic

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• Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Style, Way, Should

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.114, New Directions Publishing

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• I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Innovation, Majority

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• ...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Letting Go, Wise, Carefree

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• The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fall, Blind, Young

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.165

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