Blindness Quotes - Page 4

• Haste is blind and improvident.

  Livy

  Haste, Blind

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

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• On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  Tom Lehrer

  Income, Three, Blind

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• I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Marriage, Eye

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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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• If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

  John Jay Chapman

  Party, Curiosity, Magic

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• It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  Ben Harper

  Life Lesson, Boys, Discovery

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• One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

  Charles Brenton Huggins

  Justice, Identity, Pits

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• As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

  David Dixon

  Support, Effort, Voting

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• So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Inspirational, Mother, Passion

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics

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• Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

  Cilla Black

  Years, Albums, Documentaries

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• There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

  Richard Rohr

  Sacred, Moments, Reverence

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• The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simple, Blind Belief, Curiosity

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.219, Oxford University Press

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• Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

  Tony Snow

  Thug, Civilization, Liberty

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Time

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• The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

  Ernst Mach

  Philosophy, Men, Medicine

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

  John Knox

  Doctrine, Add, World

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• The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

  John Calvin

  Men, Light, Way

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• Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

  Maya Angelou

  Kindness, Eye, Months

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.120, Random House

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• The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.

  Samuel Beckett

  Loss, Thinking, Sight

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.183, Faber & Faber

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• I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

  David Platt

  Want, Study, Good Intentions

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• There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Color, Culture, Oil Spill

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

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• God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

  Thomas Merton

  Mercy, Seeking

  Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

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• Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

  Laurence Housman

  Life, Father, Men

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• I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.

  Harry Crews

  Beautiful, Hurt, Eye

  Harry Crews (1995). “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place”, p.58, University of Georgia Press

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