Blindness Quotes

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.

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

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

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

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

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

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

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

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

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

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

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

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.

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

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

Haste is blind and improvident.

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

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

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.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

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

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

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

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