Quotes About Shortsightedness

#1. No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

Mitch Albom

#2. A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#3. But there's still this combination of governmental ineptitude, shortsightedness, stinginess, corruption, and neglect that affected the Continentals before, during, and after Valley Forge that twenty-first-century Americans are not entirely unfamiliar with. While

Sarah Vowell

#4. It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

Mark Strand

#5. The most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Georges Bernanos

#6. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#7. A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.

Octavia Butler

#8. You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.

Mary Doria Russell

#9. We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
... There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#11. Her shortsightedness had almost brought the entire multiverse to oblivion. That Admiral Janeway had chosen to die so her younger self and crew might live, but had that been a noble sacrifice? Or was it her only escape from pain she no longer knew how to endure? How

Kirsten Beyer

#12. Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Daniel Quinn

#13. Yes, he had to admit to himself, he liked dating bookish girls who didn't give him any trouble. And he found girls who read a lot had wonderful imaginations too, which certainly didn't hurt in the sack.

Sharon Hamilton

#14. Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.

Yasmin Mogahed

#15. Children are the proof we've been here ... they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else ... Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

Allison Pearson

#16. A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.

Kate Chopin

#17. No bother." she assured them, even though they were kind of interrupting her breakfast. Pie was the most important meal of the day after all.

Megan Berry

#18. A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#20. You see, counselors, teachers, and various organizations may all agree with you that you are handicapped, but God never will. He loves giving you the opportunity to face what you fear, because when you face what you fear you become fearless.

Lisa Bevere

#21. The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

E. M. Forster

#22. Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Alison Gopnik

#23. We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

Thomas Bernhard

#24. When they both realized they were heartbroken enough to want the love torn from their rib cages, they touched each other with their hands and their mouths, and they forgot they wanted to be cured.

Anna-Marie McLemore

#25. Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.

Mark Zuckerberg