Top 100 Blind People Quotes
#1. How do blind people know when they're done wiping their ass?
Robert Schimmel
#2. Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.
H.W. Brands
#3. Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!
Bertha Von Suttner
#4. Despite their physical inability to engage with race on the very visual terms that are thought to define its salience and social significance, blind people's understanding and experience with race is not unlike that of sighted individuals.
Osagie Obasogie
#5. Love is blind; people aren't.
Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14
Kahoko Yamada
#6. On Jesus: Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.
Haven Kimmel
#7. A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
Martin Luther
#8. Who decides which defects are funny and which ones are tragic? Nobody laughs at blind people or makes iron lung jokes.
David Mitchell
#9. To be naive and easily deceived is impermissible, today more than ever, when the prevailing untruths may lead to a catastrophe because they blind people to real dangers and real possibilities.
Erich Fromm
#10. If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?
Bob Monkhouse
#11. Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
Reggie Jackson
#12. There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
Luis Bunuel
#14. Do Blind People Hate Each Other, For they Way They Look?
Peter Irabor
#15. Love isn't blind, people are blind. Recognizing beauty is as simple as opening your eyes and realizing just what it is that stands before you.
Scott Hildreth
#16. I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.
Desmond Tutu
#17. Blind people can stay up longer than someone with eyes.
Karl Pilkington
#18. I don't have any frustrations. It sounds a little silly, but life is too short for me. I don't worry about all the things that happen, I just think about what to do with them. I work a lot with blind people in my spare time and I count my blessings every day.
Paul Polman
#19. If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.
Malcolm Gladwell
#20. What is your name, Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist.
Jose Saramago
#21. the human body is also an organised system, it lives as long as it keeps organised, and death is only the effect of disorganisation, And how can a society of blind people organise itself in order to survive, By organising itself, to organise oneself is, in a way, to begin to have eyes
Jose Saramago
#22. Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.
John Piper
#23. I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
Jose Saramago
#24. A Seeing Eye bitch is not only for blind people but for people who pine for the negative of loneliness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#25. Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.
William Fitzsimmons
#26. Blind people are just like seeing people in the dark. The loss of sight does not impair the qualities of mind and heart.
Helen Keller
#27. Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.
Jose Saramago
#28. Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?
Nick Thune
#29. I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you."
"I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.
Kelley Armstrong
#31. It is a very mad world. Blind people are leading other blind people. And nobody raises the question: where are we going and why?
Osho
#32. You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes.
Larry David
#33. All of Johnstown's three or four blind people had survived the flood.
David McCullough
#34. Cabel flicks his fingers at her, spraying her with water. Grinning. "Sure. I think I'm pretty lucky. I bet blind people have great sex. I'll even wear a blindfold so it's fair." He bumps his hips lightly against hers.
Lisa McMann
#35. Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it's easy to excite them; it's easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement - another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name.
Dejan Stojanovic
#36. I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.
Sophie Calle
#37. Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.
Erik Weihenmayer
#38. No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.
Richard Curtis
#39. The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.
Michael Jackson
#40. Being around blind people is always a little frustrating to me because I know they have no idea how handsome I am.
Zach Braff
#41. You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.
Jose Saramago
#42. Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism
which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
Hunter S. Thompson
#43. Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
Andrew Denton
#44. In a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times.
Ramez Naam
#45. With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#46. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
Rufus King
#47. You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions.
Violetta Botzet Luetgers
#48. Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
Marquis De Lafayette
#49. Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them
even the blind one
she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#50. No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Albert Camus
#51. We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" by keeping the observers intensely busy counting passes.
Daniel Kahneman
#52. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck
Sanhita Baruah
#53. Most people are almost blind and they don't see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren't connected and are silly, like, I'm worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.
Mark Haddon
#54. People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.
S.D. Lawendowski
#55. Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
Octavio Paz
#56. 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
#57. One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.
Thomas Sowell
#58. The only part of love that is blind is that first rush of endorphins and craziness; after that wears off, no one knows you as honestly, warts and all, as the people who love you, truly love you.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#59. The man had been blind since birth, but he said that he could see the world through the fragrant trails and traces that people's feelings and thoughts had left behind. Che could sense whether a room had been loved or lived or argued in.
Nina George
#60. CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.
Roger Ailes
#61. 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
#62. People talk about coincidence like it's some big thing. But it's not. We bump into one another all the time. Mostly I think people are just too blind to notice.
David Arnold
#63. Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not
Slavoj Zizek
#64. People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.
Bryant McGill
#65. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see." Bob
Charles Dickens
#66. It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine
something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
George Eliot
#67. Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others
Millie Huang
#68. Most strong players are completely self-centered ... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.
Joel Lautier
#69. Blind, that's what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people's hearts, I looked only in their faces.
Harper Lee
#70. All people have their blind side-their superstitions.
Charles Lamb
#71. I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.
Booker T. Washington
#72. Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind.
Rita Rudner
#73. 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.
Rosemary Mahoney
#74. The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
Banksy
#75. It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.
Eric Lindstrom
#76. Attraction, confession, unison and finally the real face of it all. I wonder why do people go blind in love and come to their senses only when it's too late!
Shilpa Sandesh
#77. You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.
Epictetus
#78. They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks.
Travis Luedke
#79. In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.
Terence Stamp
#80. The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
Emmanuel Jal
#81. My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
H.G.Wells
#82. If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#83. I would love it if party labels were not allowed on ballots and people were forced to actually know who they were voting for. Blind loyalty to a party platform is tantamount to relinquishing the important duties of intelligent voting.
Ben Carson
#84. Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Francis Beaumont
#85. I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.
Tammara Webber
#86. Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.
Robert C. Solomon
#87. No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom.
Joe Hill
#88. 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
#89. Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
#90. Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#91. He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Orison Swett Marden
#92. 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
#93. People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I'm not suggesting that it isn't a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they'll take a look at the issues.
Condoleezza Rice
#95. Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.
Zhuangzi
#96. To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)
Victoria Moran
#97. In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few
the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
Thomas Harris
#98. God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.
Justin Villanueva
#99. I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
Nicole Kidman
#100. 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
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