Top 100 So Blind Quotes
#1. Oh Lord, I've been so selfish, so consumed with myself I haven't been able to see anyone else's pain but my own. I've let anger blind me. I've let self-righteousness stop me in my tracks and keep me from having the kind of relationship with you that I want. I need to let it go.
Lynette Eason
#2. Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them
even the blind one
she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#3. My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
Madi Diaz
#4. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Ann Aguirre
#5. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.
Richard G. Scott
#6. Everyone in the place seen me nut him apart from the ref, it caught him on the blind side. I tried to nut him on the eyebrow so it would split open, but I got him on the forehead. The crowd turned right against me, but I made it to the last bell and lost on a unanimous decision.
Stephen Richards
#8. Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?
Coolio
#9. Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
Anthony Daniels
#10. 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
#11. So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother
the World's Mother
come at last, To love as she had never loved before
To feed and guard and teach the human race.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#12. So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
Rene Descartes
#13. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers ... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.
Booker T. Washington
#15. A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, is sometimes amusing in its recklessness...
Dean Koontz
#16. Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#17. Just as on a rubbish heap swept up on a main road a purely fragrant, delightful lotus might there spring up, Even so amidst those rubbish heaps (of men) does the savaka of the Perfectly Enlightened One outshine in insight the blind puthujjana
Gautama Buddha
#18. What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.
Robert M. Pirsig
#19. It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.
Eric Lindstrom
#20. You'd have a better chance persuading someone to change their sexual orientation than reaching people who have rendered themselves so deaf and blind.
Epictetus
#21. In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.
Terence Stamp
#22. What earth is this
so in want of you
they rise up on high
to seek you in heaven?
Look at them staring
at you
right before their eyes,
unseeing, unseeing, blind.
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#23. I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
Ben Jonson
#24. What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounded ambition. He was so out of touch, so lacking in self-awareness, yet also wildly captivating. That night there was this aura around Tommy- an aura of the possible.
Greg Sestero
#25. Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#26. Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
John Heywood
#27. I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.
Willie Nelson
#28. To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)
Victoria Moran
#29. I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
Nicole Kidman
#30. What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott? he asked me that night when he dropped me off from prom. And what he was really saying then, what would have come through loud and clear if I hadn't been so blind was, why don't you see me?
Cynthia Hand
#31. And so the very institution we thought would bring the most light to the world has instead drowned it in shadows, and claimed that shadow as full sun. And we, poor blind creatures, have believed the lie. It
Rachel Caine
#32. The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
Germaine Greer
#33. 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
#34. In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Gerry Adams
#35. I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
J. C. Watts
#36. I would go so far as to say that it may even have caused him to think the more highly of them because their unbelief grew from a far more honest view of the wretchedness of things than the belief of the devout who see only what they choose to see and turn a blind eye on the rest.
Frederick Buechner
#37. I want to kiss him for caring enough to be jealous, and smack the shit out of him for being so jealous he's almost blind with it.
Kristen Proby
#38. So really, it isn't as if noticing something like his well-toned biceps or his seriously long eyelashes means anything - other than a confirmation of the fact that I'm not blind.
Hannah Harrington
#39. 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
#40. My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.
Christina Grimmie
#41. There is none so blind as the one who does not want to see.
Paulo Coelho
#42. This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.
John Eldredge
#43. Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#44. Why are you so infuriatingly blind? Everything I do-every damn word I say-is with you in mind." -Crash
T.L. Shreffler
#45. Ecause the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.
Brent Weeks
#46. I haven't always been this weak person; this broken woman. I used to dream, and when I did, I dreamt big. I had plans, plans of a future so bright it would blind you. I can still remember the day those dreams, those grand plans, and that future as bright as the sun went poof.
Harper Sloan
#47. But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
Jack Vance
#48. I'm going to be exposed, aren't I? (Acheron)
I don't know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don't want to go blind. (Savitar)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself - always, always, always - and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it.
Dean Koontz
#50. ROSALIND: I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.
William Shakespeare
#51. Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.
Rudolf Steiner
#52. I should love a dear little blind rat,' said Wendy, and added in a contemplative voice: 'I sometimes wish I were blind you know, so that I needn't see my tooth water after I've spat it.
Nancy Mitford
#53. For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
Herodotus
#54. Love
not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.
Vera Nazarian
#55. I'm a person who likes to hang out. I would never go on a blind date. That sounds like the most uncomfortable thing on the planet earth. It's like, 'Hi. Nice to meet you. So, what kind of music do you like?' Date ended.
Kirsten Dunst
#56. There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
#57. None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see.
Nancy Holder
#58. 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
#59. These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
John Fowles
#60. If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
Boris Johnson
#61. Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
David Foster
#64. Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness ...
John Wyndham
#65. As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Isaac Newton
#66. Thus, thus, truly thus: a mind so blind and sick, so base and ill-mannered, desires to lie hidden, but does not wish that anything should be hidden from it.
Jeff Wheeler
#67. My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
Les Dawson
#68. It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.
Piper Perabo
#69. The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.
Helen McCloy
#70. Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like ships driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish
Walter Scott
#71. You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,.
Chaim Potok
#72. Look from the blind man's eye ... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?
Fawad Afzal Khan
#73. None so as those that will not hear; none so blind and those that will not see.
Nancy Holder
#74. Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.
Sam Smith
#75. My art unkind, my energy all gone blind;The limbs uneven, the face shallower,Because those who I see are not seen,Those who see me are rude indeed. So blow, blow dear winter, just blow along me!
Santosh Kalwar
#76. I wanted to make at least an effort to impress, so I found my best suit, a Primark special that looked like it had been ironed by a blind man
Jay Stringer
#77. Perfection is so beautiful and wonderful that even the stone-blind and purblind see it.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#78. So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.
Judith Perelman Rossner
#79. Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.
Jeffrey Rosen
#80. It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#81. Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?
Charles F. Stanley
#82. Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so completely guided by, and dedicated to, hosts of the celestial guardians, that both his sight and consciousness are focused above and beyond the objective world.
Corinne Heline
#83. But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
Charlotte Bronte
#84. It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.
David Mitchell
#85. With nothing more than thin spandex covering my chest, even the blind would notice that my nipples were so hard, they could cut glass
Jeaniene Frost
#87. Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming.
John Wray
#88. Love is blind, they say
but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?
Susan Fletcher
#89. Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.
Anuj
#90. When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood so he nodded his head 'yes.' Unfortunately Milton was blind so he didn't see the head nod and patiently awaited a response until he starved.
Nate Denver
#91. Innocence expresses itself to a man so blind!
Somya Kedia
#92. to be so honestly blind to the follies and
Jane Austen
#93. It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
James Bovard
#95. How can people be so blind?" I shrug. "Don't overestimate the masses. They love you until they hate you. They hate you until they love you.
Amanda Bouchet
#96. Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.
Hermann Hesse
#97. So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
Norman Mailer
#98. The night is darkest just before dawn. But keep your eyes open; if you avert your eyes from the dark, you'll be blind to the rays of a new day...So keep your eyes open, no matter how dark the night ahead may be.
Hideaki Sorachi
#99. Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
Elbert Hubbard
#100. It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.
Scott Weiss
