Blind Quotes

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
Loretta Young

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Belief, Founded, Disbelief

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
Ernest Renan

Blessed, Enough, Why

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith

Home, Country, Others

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
Christina Rossetti

Eyes, Away, Show

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

Nature, Society, Humanity

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
Cate Blanchett

Bad, Racism, Violence

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George

Change, Danger, Greater

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
Robert Wyatt

Love, Politics, Experience

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
Titus Livius

Clear, Haste, Hurry

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep

Faith, Today, Actor

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
Stevie Wonder

Blessed, Sometimes, Able

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.
Stevie Wonder

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford

Political, Find, Vote

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
Margaret Cho

Beauty, Mean, Exist

I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Betty White

Dog, Dogs, Golden

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
Jonathan Sacks

God, Single, Whole

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
Marcia Wallace

Change, Faith, God

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell

Rain, Black, Dark

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
Charles de Secondat

Talk, Pretend, Productive

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Ada Cambridge

Justice, Law, Eyes

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

Put, Away, Wanted

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
James Bovard

Faith, Government, Amazing

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
Johannes Tauler

Self, Ignorant, Within

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
Chester Bennington

Someone, Person, Guess

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar

Both, Fall, Wonder

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Gerry Adams

Struggle, Past, Wanted

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
Ben Harper

American, Truly, Musical

I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
Nathan Fillion

Life, Blessings, Enjoy

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