Blindness Quotations

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

would be damaging to the Constitution because the Senate would fail to try the case. It would be harmful to the body politic because there's no resolution of the issues of the case. But most importantly, it would show willful blindness to the evidentiary record that has thus far been presented.

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

China's involvement with troublesome states indicates at best a blindness to consequences, and at worst something more ominous.

Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special.

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.

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

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.

Science which has become a great power in the lastcentury, has analyzed everything divine handed down tous in the holy books. After this cruel analysis thelearned of this world have nothing left of all thatwas sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts andoverlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness ismarvelous.

It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty just to be the hiss of the serpent, to drown them in perdition. It was just no God.

If you look away from something you're supposed to be looking for, that's called willful blindness, ... and willful blindness is one aspect of determining the negligence.

I just don't think it's a big deal, ... There certainly isn't any evidence linking Viagra with these reports. There is a risk with this form of blindness from diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and those are also risks for erectile dysfunction or impotence, which is also why people take Viagra.

I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

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

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

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.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

You can't always see strokes and blindness or kidney, nerve and heart disease, ... But it's there. Research shows that frequent glucose testing reduces your chances of suffering from any of those complications.

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

Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.

Haste is blind and improvident.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

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

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

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.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

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

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

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

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.