Top 100 Blind Quotes
#1. Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
George Grosz
#2. There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
Cassandra Clare
#3. Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.
David Lange
#4. My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?
Saul Bellow
#5. I thought love was supposed to be blind, not deaf, too.
Debbie Mason
#6. Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
Walt Disney
#7. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels
the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
Azar Nafisi
#8. I had chosen a blind spot at the end of the plumbers' shop to make my escape bid. Under my overalls I wore extra jeans, vest, t-shirt and I had a donkey jacket on that I intended to throw over the razor wire. Hopefully the extra clothes would stop the razor wire from cutting me.
Stephen Richards
#9. I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
#10. I saw that evil was impotent - that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real - and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.
Ayn Rand
#11. When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
Gary Sheffield
#12. I would go blind before I stopped staring at her.
S.L. Jennings
#13. They, the selfish ones, are like spiritual lame people who use other beings as crutches to walk on the path of life. And they are the Blind of Spirit who never find Love, because they do not know how to love and do not let themselves be loved
Ivan Figueroa-Otero
#14. Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#15. I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me
Dave Matthews Band
#16. It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.
John Godfrey Saxe
#17. What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?
Karan Mahajan
#18. Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
Livy
#19. Being around blind people is always a little frustrating to me because I know they have no idea how handsome I am.
Zach Braff
#20. The love we hold sees no boundaries, it feels no limits, it crosses all frontiers. It can enrich us or send us spiralling to the deepest fathoms and if it is true, it can cross oceans and climb mountains, blind to race, creed and colour...It is a beautiful thing, this thing that claims our hearts.
Virginia Alison
#21. When you meet someone, you know all about him. On subsequent meetings, you blind yourself to your own wisdom
Irvin D. Yalom
#22. There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
Neil Gaiman
#23. Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
William Penn
#24. I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop me from doing something stupid. He was my sense of reality in a world thrown off balance. But he wasn't here now.
Nicole Sobon
#25. When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#26. You know you're doing something right when you've reduced hordes of liberals to blind, sputtering rage.
Ann Coulter
#27. People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.
Jonathan Haidt
#28. We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
Iain McGilchrist
#30. There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I've chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.
Kim Harrison
#31. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.
Pablo Casals
#32. Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.
Fred Hoyle
#33. Ask Gandhi, and eye for an eye makes us both blind ... ask an engineer, and the numbers don't lie - the first to strike wins.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#35. When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.
Nate Denver
#36. Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.
Brigham Young
#37. Each and every day around the world, display wars are taking place as governments, multinational corporations, criminals, and terrorists battle to shape and control what is seen online. What ensues is a real but covert war on reality, one that is meant to blind us to the truth.
Marc Goodman
#38. Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die.
Lev Grossman
#39. Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.
Lou Krieger
#40. Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy.
Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
Although a poor blind boy!
Colley Cibber
#41. Dumbledore : I was blind . That is what love does. I couldn't see that you needed to hear that this closed-up, tricky, dangerous old man ... loved you ...
J.K. Rowling
#42. I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.
Woody Allen
#43. Innocence expresses itself to a man so blind!
Somya Kedia
#44. You have heard the expression 'love is blind'"
"I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before
J.D. Robb
#45. Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with "The Moment" - that moment where you first walk into the bar or restaurant or coffee shop and scan the crowd and suddenly your heart stops and you say to yourself: oh, please - let it be him.
Julie James
#46. When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.
Sue Townsend
#47. Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
Josh Billings
#48. Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
Huston Smith
#49. If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#50. If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane
Axl Rose
#51. Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.
T.F. Hodge
#52. You work through race, you don't deny race. It's the difference between being color-blind and love-struck. You see, if I love you, I don't need to eliminate your whiteness. If you love me, you don't need to eliminate my blackness. You embrace humanity.
Cornel West
#53. Indeed, it is very far from accurate to say that we see with our eyes. The eye is blind but for the idea behind the eye.
George B. Bridgman
#54. I'm assuming you didn't just call me to come out of the closet to a blind woman'
'Oh, it's something I do everyday,' Kate said, enjoying Faith's sense of humor. 'I open up a phone book, randomly select a name, dial it, and when they answer, I proclaim I'm a lesbian and then hang up.
Laurie Salzler
#55. In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.
Clark Ashton Smith
#56. Every age is blind to its own worst madness.
Allan Bloom
#57. You don't need to be Blind Loyal. Having the best interest of that person in your heart shouldn't stop you from constantly giving feedback.
Assegid Habtewold
#58. Diamond thought I was blind; I knew he was sneaking down here to mess with Tata at night.
Myiesha
#60. 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
#61. We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.
Steven Soderbergh
#62. A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
Charles Churchill
#63. Almost nobody's competent, Paul. It's enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
#64. Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.
Wayne W. Dyer
#66. I myself am a supporter of multilingualism, but multilingualism without a true understanding of universal language will only make us blind and ultimately ineffectual in realizing that very ideal.
Minae Mizumura
#68. If we had the right sense of our position in the world, if to compare were inseparable from to live, the revelation of our infinitesimal presence would crush us. But to live is to blind ourselves to our own dimensions ... ==========
Anonymous
#69. Whoever said that love is blind, it was wrong; vanity is more certain to be blind.
Mathias Aires
#70. Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices stay in their envelopes, you're making matters worse. When you finally have to deal with the problem - believe me, you will eventually - it will be exaggerated because you didn't take action.
Jean Chatzky
#71. Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
Terry Eagleton
#72. In the world of the blind the one eyed man is king
Proverb
#73. Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
Cassandra Clare
#74. He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself ... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
Chanakya
#76. 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
#77. A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
Harold S. Kushner
#79. Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid.
Lois Greiman
#80. Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.
Li Keqiang
#81. A mute mentor & blind novice
I grabbed your hand; made me wise
Shahzaib Ansari
#82. That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.
Terry Pratchett
#83. The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.
Joan Rivers
#84. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
Samuel Smiles
#85. There seem to be a lot of gay people there ... Oh please, as if that's what I meant by that. Trust me, none of them would ever want to fuck you anyway. They're gay, not blind.
Justin Halpern
#86. [O Ruler of Olympus, why did it please thee to add more care to worried mortals by letting them learn of future slaughters by means of cruel omens! Whatever thou hast in store, do it unexpectedly; let the minds of men be blind to their future fate: let him who fears, still cling to hope!]
Michel De Montaigne
#87. Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.
N. T. Wright
#88. The punter never made her feel quite so taken care of, never made her feel about to be entered by something that didn't know she was there and yet was all about making her feel good anyway, coming in. Entertainment is blind.
David Foster Wallace
#90. It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.
Davy Crockett
#91. to be so honestly blind to the follies and
Jane Austen
#92. 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
#93. Apart from his political opinions, I also took over my husband's opinion that he is a modern man, treating women like equals. Love makes you blind sometimes.
Lucie Novak
#94. Christ came to set the captive free - no matter what kind of yoke binds them. He came to bind up the brokenhearted - no matter what broke the heart. He came to open the eyes of the blind - no matter what veiled their vision.
Beth Moore
#95. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
#96. Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
Charlotte Bronte
#97. The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.
Reed Mullin
#98. Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.
N.K. Jemisin
#99. Those with Anton's syndrome are not pretending they are not blind; they truly believe they are not blind. Their verbal reports, while inaccurate, are not lies. Instead, they are experiencing what they take to be vision, but it is all internally generated.
David Eagleman
#100. I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have one's illusions destroyed - that is really almost more than one can bear.
Joseph Conrad
