Quotes with blindness

  • My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
  • There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
  • With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

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  • Samuel Butler 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.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Adam Ferguson 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.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Vachel Lindsay I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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  • John Milton It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Comte de Bussy-Rabutin Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
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  • Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Lord George Byron My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • C. J. Mahaney Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • L. Ron Hubbard There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • John Milton To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
    Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Thomas Fuller Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Helen Keller My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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