Top 100 Quotes About Blind Man
#1. He is a blind man and I am his book of braille. His breath against my collarbone raises goosebumps on my arm as I let him read my story.
Alanna Rusnak
#3. 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
#4. The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
Remy De Gourmont
#5. Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Benjamin Whichcote
#6. We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man.
Victor Hugo
#7. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
#8. I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him ... he was a blind man who see better than anyone
Sheridan Hay
#9. I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.
Jim Butcher
#10. A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Sol LeWitt
#11. You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet."
"Oh real funny. Tease the blind man."
~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115
Maria V. Snyder
#12. A blind man. I can stare at him
ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
No, he is in a great solitude.
O, strange joy,
to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
No, my thirst is greater than before.
Denise Levertov
#13. A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
Victor Hugo
#14. There must be a government, said the first blind man, I'm not so sure, but there is, it will be a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organize nothingness.
Jose Saramago
#15. As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake."
"Wow ... ," I breathed.
She frowned at me.
"That was a great metaphor," I said.
"Oh please."
"I need to write that down," I said, ignoring her complaints, fishing for my new mobile to type it out.
Brandon Sanderson
#16. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
#17. blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.
Thomas A. Harris
#18. We learn nothing of very much importance when it can be explained entirely in terms of past experience. If it were possible to understand all things in terms of what we know already, we could convey the sense of color to a blind man with nothing but sound, taste, touch, and smell.
Alan W. Watts
#20. In a world darksome as this'n I believe a blind man ort to be better sighted than most.
Cormac McCarthy
#21. Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?
Dada Bhagwan
#22. I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
Louis Bayard
#23. [Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all ... ] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.
Izaak Walton
#24. Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
Dan Millman
#25. Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.
Franz Grillparzer
#26. What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
Chanakya
#27. Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village ...
Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue!
John Rachel
#28. To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.
Kirk Cameron
#29. He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, 'It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost
Herbert Mason
#30. Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind - isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?
Plato
#31. Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#32. I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield
#33. Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
David Seabury
#34. If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.
Fenley Douglas
#35. O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.
Ephrem The Syrian
#36. There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper ...
Criss Jami
#37. Jane, will you marry me?"
"Yes sir."
"A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?"
"Yes, sir."
"A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"
"Yes, sir."
"Truly, Jane?"
"Most truly, sir.
Charlotte Bronte
#38. A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?
William Shakespeare
#39. A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.
Marty Rubin
#40. Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde
#41. A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge: a great man's world by the limits of his vision.
E. Paul Hovey
#42. I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
William Butler Yeats
#43. I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
Dean Koontz
#44. If a blind man were to ask me "Have you got two hands?" I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don't know why I should trust my eyes. For why shouldn't I test my eyes by looking to find out whether I see my two hands? What is to be tested by what?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#46. 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
#47. Destroy the traces. I'd never tried to do that. Instead I'd lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible.
Jonathan Lethem
#48. In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.
George R. Stewart
#50. I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. A blind man sees more than a fool, even when both his eyes are open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.
Bret Easton Ellis
#54. I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
John Green
#55. In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#56. A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?
Henny Youngman
#57. No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.
Zhuangzi
#59. Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside ...
Martin Amis
#60. A blind man can see how much I love you
Amy Bloom
#61. A blind man may be picturesque; but it requires two eyes to see the picture.
G.K. Chesterton
#64. To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#65. The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,
a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,
he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. When the boy asked him if this knowledge were a special knowledge only to the blind the blind man said that it was not. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had no time to sharpen them.
Cormac McCarthy
#67. The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows ... Color is surface skin that fits over the form.
John French Sloan
#68. Any self-respecting rake had two kinds of women in his life: those he took to bed at night and those who made him a pancake in the morning. If he suddenly wanted both from the same woman, it was a warning flag. One big and red enough for even a blind man to see.
Tessa Dare
#69. Asking an angry man to change his ways is like asking a blind man to try harder to see.
Evan L. Katz
#70. A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.
Melina Marchetta
#71. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold.
Patrick Rothfuss
#72. You and Mama, both of you dress loud enough a blind man can feel you coming.
Rhys Ford
#73. It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#74. I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.
Philip Guston
#75. O Nanak, if a blind man goes to assay jewels, he shall not know their worth and shall return after making an exhibition of himself.
Guru Angad
#76. Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.
Leslie Nielsen
#77. And then I saw the way he looked at her ... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.
Stephenie Meyer
#78. 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
#79. An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. [ ... ] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
Jan Kochanowski
#81. Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?
Robert Hunter
#82. No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.
Richard Matheson
#84. If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#85. Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
Pablo Picasso
#86. Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.
Andrea Levy
#87. In spite of their friendship, they were so far apart, the bowstring was so taut between them: a seeing man and a blind man, they walked side by side ; the blind man's unawareness of his own blindness was a consolation only to himself.
Hermann Hesse
#88. This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
Paul O'Neill
#89. A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Charles Darwin
#90. Like a blind man, unaware of race or religion, he quickly discovered that prejudice was often taught at the breakfast table.
Jeffrey Archer
#91. A blind man running for a bus could have told them he was queer.
Lisa O'Donnell
#92. Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
Osho
#93. Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.
P.G. Wodehouse
#94. Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches.
Adri Sinclair
#95. There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.
Avi
#96. Next, I'm holding a bag of clothes, being herded toward an open door filled with sunlight. My briefs are still looped around my ankles, so I'm waddling, my erection swinging in front of me like a blind man's cane, and the talent wrangler has the nerve to say, 'Thank you for coming...
Chuck Palahniuk
#98. It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#99. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.
Michael Ruse
#100. Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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