Quotes of: Blindness Keyword

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The Nature Of Natural History

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

Words of Radiance

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jennifer Egan

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Oscar Wilde

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Pasquier Quesnel

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Sophocles

Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions.

Thiruman Archunan

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Matthew Henry

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

Adam Michnik

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

Nancy Pearcey

I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Rosemary Mahoney

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Stevie Wonder

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

Eric Close

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.

Fenley Douglas

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

John Banville