Purblind Quotes

#1. Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.

James George Frazer

#2. How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts!

Epicurus

#3. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

Sri Aurobindo

#4. Perfection is so beautiful and wonderful that even the stone-blind and purblind see it.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#5. Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

William Penn

#6. This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf ... Cupid.

William Shakespeare

#7. A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
And God Save
as you prefer
the King or Ireland.
The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints

Louis MacNeice

#9. O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).

Richard Baxter

#10. The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. Whatever is, is in its causes just;
But purblind man
Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link;
His eyes not carrying to that equal beam
That poises all above.

John Dryden

#12. Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#13. Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. Enough, my very noble husband. You had another of your vacillating consultations with your councilors. Fine advisors." With infinite scorn, "A herd of palsied purblind idiots hugging their sterile profits close to their sunken chests in the face of my father's displeasure.

Isaac Asimov

#15. Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Robert Boyle

#16. I still have a purblind academic image to uphold. I can't afford to let reality get in the way of my opinions.

George Olney

#17. I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#18. I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Mike Mills

#19. Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.

Susan Dorothea White

#20. Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

Tom Lehrer

#21. I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skipping record. And if these thoughts or these triggers happen to me through maybe shaking a hand or just a thought or just - then I can't get past it and move on with my life.

Howie Mandel

#22. From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.

N. Murray Edwards