Top 100 Blind Eye Sayings

#1. One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

Djuna Barnes

Blind Eye Sayings #2407
#2. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!

Charles Dickens

Blind Eye Sayings #4168
#3. In a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times.

Ramez Naam

Blind Eye Sayings #7017
#4. In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Benjamin Franklin

Blind Eye Sayings #10202
#5. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Helen Keller

Blind Eye Sayings #14878
#6. An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Russell Hoban

Blind Eye Sayings #19210
#7. My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

Madi Diaz

Blind Eye Sayings #22668
#8. I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes ... I really do not see the signal!

Horatio Nelson

Blind Eye Sayings #37084
#9. The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

Oscar W. Firkins

Blind Eye Sayings #38073
#10. Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Blind Eye Sayings #40153
#11. Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

Harun Yahya

Blind Eye Sayings #43693
#12. My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

Joe Frazier

Blind Eye Sayings #67959
#13. Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

Charles Spurgeon

Blind Eye Sayings #69495
#14. What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain.

Chrissy Moon

Blind Eye Sayings #69693
#15. Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

Philip Sidney

Blind Eye Sayings #72144
#16. Our very eyes
Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

William Shakespeare

Blind Eye Sayings #73574
#17. The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.

Mortimer J. Adler

Blind Eye Sayings #73979
#18. The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Blind Eye Sayings #85551
#19. He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.

Robert Jordan

Blind Eye Sayings #86951
#20. But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

Merle Shain

Blind Eye Sayings #100258
#21. If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.

Thomas Malthus

Blind Eye Sayings #121801
#22. for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Blind Eye Sayings #138083
#23. ("An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

Kate Atkinson

Blind Eye Sayings #158352
#24. I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by.

William Butler Yeats

Blind Eye Sayings #159167
#25. Toward dawn we shared with you
your hour of desolation,
the huge lingering passion
of your unearthly out cry,
as you swung your blind head
towards us and laboriously opened
a bloodshot, glistening eye,
in which we swam with terror and recognition.

Stanley Kunitz

Blind Eye Sayings #182333
#26. An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Blind Eye Sayings #189543
#27. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers ... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Blind Eye Sayings #190627
#28. Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going ... still, to logic it is blind.

Rajneesh

Blind Eye Sayings #204068
#29. Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st tasteHis works. Admitted once to his embrace,Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before:Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heartMade pure shall relish with divine delightTill then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.

William Cowper

Blind Eye Sayings #204154
#30. A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.

William Shakespeare

Blind Eye Sayings #211991
#31. Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Blind Eye Sayings #233651
#32. The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blind Eye Sayings #238491
#33. The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

Sienna Miller

Blind Eye Sayings #239445
#34. God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Blind Eye Sayings #256768
#35. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, even if the person is blind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Blind Eye Sayings #275851
#36. If someone takes my eye, Do not take his eye for me, Take his eye and give it to the blind child, Who still cries though he has no eyes to see.

Loa Xing

Blind Eye Sayings #291674
#37. Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

Lil' Wayne

Blind Eye Sayings #293239
#38. I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.

Bob Casey Jr.

Blind Eye Sayings #294428
#39. Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

Sherrod Brown

Blind Eye Sayings #295826
#40. It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

David O. McKay

Blind Eye Sayings #298283
#41. In the land of the blind the third eyed man is king

Dean Cavanagh

Blind Eye Sayings #307202
#42. There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Jane Smiley

Blind Eye Sayings #311370
#43. The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Emmanuel Jal

Blind Eye Sayings #321216
#44. An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

Kathy Mattea

Blind Eye Sayings #337938
#45. If somebody was blind his entire life, just seeing a color, any color, would be fascinating even if it was just a dull color to a healthy eye.

A.B. Whelan

Blind Eye Sayings #345215
#46. When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

Gordon Brown

Blind Eye Sayings #365903
#47. But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

J.I. Packer

Blind Eye Sayings #366832
#48. But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

Dennis Lehane

Blind Eye Sayings #381908
#49. For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau

Blind Eye Sayings #395796
#50. I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Stuart Scott

Blind Eye Sayings #400852
#51. Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

Walter Darby Bannard

Blind Eye Sayings #402634
#52. The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf and blind. Without eyes or ears, they have no frame of reference-and without a frame of reference, they have no clear identities.

Joseph Conrad

Blind Eye Sayings #414282
#53. The main reason they don't use seeing eye cats is because you will end up with the cat, and the blind person, stuck up a tree

Haresh Daswani

Blind Eye Sayings #432448
#54. Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

Elton Gallegly

Blind Eye Sayings #436502
#55. The eye is the window to the soul, and from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, why can't we all be blind and dumb?

Kristen Heitzmann

Blind Eye Sayings #452589
#56. It is only those who do not know who wander the paths. A blind eye and a stout heart create a true wanderer. Those who seek the paths do so in vain; only those who can see deep might hope to wander.

Mary-Jean Harris

Blind Eye Sayings #470462
#57. I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.

Joe Eszterhas

Blind Eye Sayings #472999
#58. Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

William Wordsworth

Blind Eye Sayings #478192
#59. A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Blind Eye Sayings #482549
#60. Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

William Shakespeare

Blind Eye Sayings #491740
#61. If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Blind Eye Sayings #520668
#62. Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.

Stephen Kinzer

Blind Eye Sayings #557968
#63. Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

George Henry Lewes

Blind Eye Sayings #569576
#64. Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

Luigi Pirandello

Blind Eye Sayings #590937
#65. Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

Blind Eye Sayings #603322
#66. 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

Blind Eye Sayings #608681
#67. A 2006 Senate Report on the intelligence gathered about Iraq before the war also concluded, "Postwar information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and that the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi.

Charles River Editors

Blind Eye Sayings #622423
#68. If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

Jane Roberts

Blind Eye Sayings #637309
#69. I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don't work!

Tracee Ellis Ross

Blind Eye Sayings #644828
#70. I would go so far as to say that it may even have caused him to think the more highly of them because their unbelief grew from a far more honest view of the wretchedness of things than the belief of the devout who see only what they choose to see and turn a blind eye on the rest.

Frederick Buechner

Blind Eye Sayings #656957
#71. Universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Blind Eye Sayings #665326
#72. Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

James M. Barrie

Blind Eye Sayings #672014
#73. I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

Susan Sarandon

Blind Eye Sayings #677528
#74. We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blind Eye Sayings #685346
#75. Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticed eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.

Charles H. Percy

Blind Eye Sayings #695309
#76. (It was also helpful that the hotel's owner tended to turn a blind eye to room sharing. A room filled with too many guests was better than one with no guests at all.)

Maureen Johnson

Blind Eye Sayings #699399
#77. I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Socrates

Blind Eye Sayings #721657
#78. Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

Brother Ali

Blind Eye Sayings #725088
#79. Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

Paul Begala

Blind Eye Sayings #727365
#80. A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Blind Eye Sayings #745348
#81. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. An eye for an eye will make us all blind.

Morra Quatro

Blind Eye Sayings #746862
#82. At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

T. S. Eliot

Blind Eye Sayings #750476
#83. An eye for an eye....we are all blind

Dalai Lama XIV

Blind Eye Sayings #755751
#84. The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

Bill Frist

Blind Eye Sayings #763972
#85. The person who sat the kid down on the breadboard to cut off thier diaper with a huge knife was the most elderly person in the family, who was blind in one eye..and had the shakes ... of course the kids uncouncious, He's lost two pints of blood!

Eoin Colfer

Blind Eye Sayings #771525
#86. Blind people can stay up longer than someone with eyes.

Karl Pilkington

Blind Eye Sayings #772508
#87. She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

Harry Chapin

Blind Eye Sayings #774332
#88. This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.

John Eldredge

Blind Eye Sayings #775939
#89. There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Paul Virilio

Blind Eye Sayings #779578
#90. General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Blind Eye Sayings #791347
#91. Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Simon Mainwaring

Blind Eye Sayings #797686
#92. The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf...

William Gaddis

Blind Eye Sayings #803372
#93. It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Pope Gregory VII

Blind Eye Sayings #844938
#94. It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.

Trevor Manuel

Blind Eye Sayings #848537
#95. An eye for an eye ... the whole world goes blind" , spoken by Nathan

Jessica Jones

Blind Eye Sayings #858209
#96. An eye for an eye just makes the world blind

M K Gandhi

Blind Eye Sayings #863895
#97. Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

Ralph Hodgson

Blind Eye Sayings #868575
#98. Turn a blind eye on logic and sense,
for eyes see facts and minds make mess;
mostly that's why we mistake for something less,
all of the shadows of those who conspire.
But where there is smoke, near is a fire.

Unknown

Blind Eye Sayings #879275
#99. Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

J.M. Barrie

Blind Eye Sayings #882601
#100. Blind eyes cannot read.

Peter Greenaway

Blind Eye Sayings #888247

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