Top 100 Quotes About Blinded
#1. The Baroness Lindenberg, as I found afterwards, had long been accustomed to sacrifice the interests of others to her own, and her wish to send Claude to Strasbourg blinded her to the danger of the undertaking. Accordingly,
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#2. Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Aaron Swartz
#3. Those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.
Rolf Potts
#4. Often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
Mercedes Lackey
#5. You shall not discover the truth being being blinded to faith.
Malinda Lo
#6. Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.
Karen Marie Moning
#7. Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
K. Melissa Kennedy
#9. In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light so that we can see the way. More important, so that we can look at ourselves, as well as others, and know how similar we are to the herd.
F. Sionil Jose
#10. If what you believe doesn't depend om what you see, you've been blinded as effectively as by poking out your eyeballs.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#11. It's easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality.
Jay Kristoff
#12. It was full of luxurious trappings and shiny baubles, and that had blinded me to the fact that nothing about it was real.
Sara Gruen
#13. The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
Annie Dillard
#14. Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.
Harry Gordon Johnson
#15. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
#16. All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.
Edwina Findley
#18. To those who refuse to be blinded by the glare, or deafened by the hush, who are brave enough to question, and curious enough to explore. To those who will not forget. You will make a difference. And to the rest of us, so that we may learn how.
Zana Fraillon
#19. It was as if his apostasy from the faith of his fathers, filling him with the fiery zeal of the convert, and particularly of the convert to heresy, had blinded him to every other element in the gigantic self-delusion of civilized man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. He saw a blinded convulsing body thrown down into an open grave. It was an image he could not escape.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#21. There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
Wendell Berry
#22. You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
Vanessa Kerry
#23. Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John Calvin
#24. It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still holds. If they are blinded by greed, then it's time to pick up our virtual stones so we can start knocking sense into 'em...
Faith Brashear
#25. The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
Freeman Dyson
#26. Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain,
As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again
John Keats
#27. Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,
look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#28. He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.
Mindy Kaling
#29. Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.
Artur Davis
#30. I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought?
Clarice Lispector
#31. Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.
Terry Tempest Williams
#32. Blinded by the limits of our own imagination, historically we have found it difficult to envisage another entity with capabilities that rival our own
Margi Prideaux
#33. Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
David McCullough
#34. All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power
men who are not bound by the traditions of the past
men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries
young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.
John F. Kennedy
#35. We are all blinded by our beliefs. Never stop questioning and realize only respectful discussions can free us from our delusions.
Jim Steele
#36. It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.
Thea Harris
#37. she's blinded by his douchesparkle.
Staci Hart
#38. We're blinded to our potential because we cannot see beyond our weakness.
Jenni Catron
#39. I became blinded by what I thought I needed to do. I was wrong. I was stupid. But not for one minute did I ever stop loving you. And that's why I deserve to be forgiven.
C.C. Hunter
#40. His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#41. How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.
Marty Rubin
#42. Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.
Kate Morton
#43. Straight up, this is the man in your bed. I want in there, Faye, and when I get in there, I'm gonna dig in deep so when I share my shit that's so dark you'll be blinded by it and you'll wanna run to the light, you can't because I'm so deep, you can't let go.
Kristen Ashley
#44. The foolish heart - blinded from reality because of its idols - does not learn from experience.
Timothy Keller
#45. Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.
Richard M. Weaver
#46. The sunlight blinded her. She felt purified by its rays. She had been in the dark for so long, and in so many ways.
Children of Ankh series
Kim Cormack
#47. Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses.
Kellie Elmore
#48. As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.
Bryant McGill
#49. Oh, the humanity ...
It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.
J.R. Ward
#50. I dive into the future , but im blinded by the sun , im reborn in ever ymoment so who knows what i'll become
Selena Gomez
#51. And, as I traveled farther and farther, exploring the rich, sweet soul of her, my sense of pleasant friendship became but a broad foundation for such height, such breadth, such interlocked combination of feeling as left me fairly blinded with the wonder of it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#52. wouldn't a loving gather, I reasoned, have more compassion than to seek revenge on His comparatively feeble children who are temporarily blinded by the illusions of time and space?
Mike Dooley
#53. With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
Erich Maria Remarque
#54. The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.
Irakli Okruashvili
#55. She was as different from her dazzling sister as night was to day. Ballard found it difficult to look at the younger girl for more than a moment at a time. Beauty such as hers blinded him, like looking directly at the sun. Louvaen though--he could happily drown in the dark Louvaen.
Grace Draven
#56. Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better?
V.S. Carnes
#57. As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#58. The Lord is like lightening. Startled by its appearance and momentarily blinded by the brightness of the flash, when the lightening strikes a person is either destroy or jolted to new life." Elias the Teacher
Daniel Molyneux
#59. Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books.
James Fenimore Cooper
#60. I can't help but think of the phrase ' sometimes it is better to be kept in the dark than be blinded by the light.
Anna Todd
#61. People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.
Richard Paul Evans
#62. The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
Robin Morgan
#63. A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment.
H.G.Wells
#64. Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.
Philip K. Dick
#65. But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
David Levithan
#66. Dante.
He loved me so deep and so hard that I was blinded by it.
I thought it was a miracle. I was so young, so impressionable, so infatuated.
So stupid. For years and years, all I had the sense to do was bask in it.
I let our love rule my life. It was everything to me.
R.K. Lilley
#67. Whether someone wants to learn the words to a new Lady Gaga song they heard on the radio or to verify the lyrics to 'Blinded by the Light', the LyricWiki community delivers.
Gil Penchina
#68. Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.
Dean Koontz
#70. Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
Anthony Of Padua
#71. His descriptions of his own stay in Kansas - now "Bleeding Kansas" to many - were devoid of references to the violence of the nearby Border War. He had blinded
Robert L. O'Connell
#72. I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death ... Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!
Fidelis Of Sigmaringen
#73. Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.
Brom
#74. Sure
love is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is.
William Carlos Williams
#75. an atom, and the resulting detonation blinded them all.
Jason Gurley
#76. Her boarders are so hard and bright that these lumpy things are being blinded just by looking at her; she's opaque, she's impermeable, she's a million densities and dimensions more real than any of them. They break against her and roll off like mist.
Tana French
#77. People will envy you, cut you down, tell lies and despise you, all the while they're watching you.
Let them watch you rise above and succeed. Let go of the negativity and the ill minded. Some people are so blinded.
Elizabeth Blade
#78. In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#79. The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen.
Jane Austen
#80. Back when I was younger,
Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger.
Some say I dream too big,
And my dream gon' take me under.
Freddie Gibbs
#81. I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
Questlove
#82. Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
Marge Piercy
#83. It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light
Josh Stern
#84. I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be.
Nenia Campbell
#85. Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot ...
Farid Al-Din Attar
#86. Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate,
I find under the boughs of love and hate,
In all poor foolish things that live a day,
Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
W.B.Yeats
#87. Everything we could possibly want or need is there for the taking, but we are blinded by fears of lack and limitation, and we have bought the lie that resources are limited, so we must therefore compete for the few that are left.
Stephen Richards
#88. When those dreams in that unreachable future suddenly rise up around you, how can you not be blinded to their truths? All at once, it is here. All at once, you are living in its very midst. Why then must you seek to pull away? He
Steven Erikson
#89. He hated mosquitoes. Spiders too, although he liked outer insects, found them fascinating. Like humans, in a way- stupid and sometimes vicious, blinded by need.
Lauren Oliver
#90. The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#91. The future is bright, but fools run straight ahead and get blinded then complain, because they didn't prepare by simply wearing a pair of shades.
James Jean-Pierre
#92. Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.
Douglas Booth
#93. Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale.
Alex Morritt
#94. Kavin: You've a dark side to yourself. Everyone has but unfortunately yours blinded my world.
Kartik Srivastava
#95. For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter-than-average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he'd never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they'd become in their intolerance.
Katherine McIntyre
#96. That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
Lynn Abbey
#97. Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Juvenal
#98. I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.
Bob Dylan
#99. Dreamers should not be blinded or satisfied by their small achievements.
Euginia Herlihy
#100. I was blinded by whispered promises and I never realised how cruel a woman could be until it was too late.
Emma Russell
