Quotes About Blindness To Truth

#1. Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

R. Lee Ermey

#2. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

Cornel West

#4. I thought of the similarities of complaints
always selfishness, always blindness
and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

Alain De Botton

#5. Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived.

Dianna Hardy

#6. Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him.

C.J. Anderson

#7. Jesters do oft prove prophets.

William Shakespeare

#8. You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

Daniel Wallace

#9. Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you're going to do.

Hyrum W. Smith

#10. To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

#11. To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Between perfect vision and total blindness lies all the truth we know.

Peter Morville

#13. A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

Charlotte Armstrong

#14. Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes

#15. I will tell you something about stories ... They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#16. Damn, women truly could be cold-hearted bitches.

R.L. Mathewson

#17. How much truth can we bear? Our tolerance for carrying the truth is not very high. I mean, the slightest discomfort about truth and we run to our refuge of our jobs and our schools and our friends who keep supporting our blindness.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#18. It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

Frank Warren

#19. Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot ... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.

Joel Edgerton

#20. Mary thought that the art of love might just be blindness: the willingness not to see the truth of anything, to blur life's sharp edges and drift on an impression of one's own making, to act as if the life you lived was the life you wanted.

Robin Oliveira

#21. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation.

Paulo Coelho

#22. LEAR: ... yet you see how this world goes.
GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

William Shakespeare

#23. I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

John Mahoney

#24. If that's what you call truth in this wicked world,
no wonder why you're so desperate to defend it.

Toba Beta

#25. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.

Jennifer DeLucy

#26. Don't just conform; ask questions.
Don't just believe if it isn't your truth.
Don't follow dogma; it is blindness.
Just love; don't kill to go to heaven.

Debasish Mridha

#27. It is not ... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

William Osler