Blind famous quotes
05-15-2025
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According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.
-- A. G. Mohan -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
-- A. J. Liebling -
If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed
-- Abbi Glines -
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
-- Adam Michnik -
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
-- Alan Hirsch -
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
-- Alexander Pope -
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
-- Alister MacKenzie -
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns
-- Andrew Marvell -
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
-- Anthony Eden -
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 -
There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
-- Art Carney -
If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk
-- Assata Shakur -
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
-- Audre Lorde -
There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.
-- Avi -
If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
-- Ben Harper -
Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.
-- Bill Bailey -
When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.
-- Bill Porter -
Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
-- Blaise Pascal -
You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!
-- Bobby Heenan -
There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.
-- Bobby Heenan -
If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
-- Boonaa Mohammed -
Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.
-- Brian P. Cleary -
Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
-- Carl Jung -
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.
-- Carlton Pearson -
There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?
-- Cassandra Clare -
You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.
-- Cate Tiernan -
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
-- Charles Hodge -
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.
-- Chester Bennington -
Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.
-- Clive Barker -
Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.
-- Colin Firth -
Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
-- Colleen McCullough -
Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?
-- Coolio -
It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
-- Coventry Patmore -
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
-- Criss Jami -
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.
-- Dave Willis -
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 -
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
-- David Mitchell -
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself,
-- David Suchet -
I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
-- Della Reese -
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.
-- Douglas B. Reeves -
Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.
-- Elizabeth Smart -
Love is more than blind. It’s brain-dead.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
-- Emily Dickinson -
It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.
-- Emily Saliers -
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
-- Enoch Powell -
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
-- Ernest Renan -
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
-- Ernestine Rose -
Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.
-- Francine Pascal -
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.
-- Fred Allen -
Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.
-- Geoffrey Moore -
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
-- Geoffrey Moore -
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
-- George A. Sheehan -
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
-- George Farquhar -
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
-- George Grosz -
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
-- George Horace Lorimer -
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
-- Georges Rouault -
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
-- Gerhard Richter -
It is not love, but lack of love which is blind....
-- Glenway Wescott -
They, who have no eyes in their face, are not called blind. They alone are blind, O Nanak, who stray away from their Lord.
-- Guru Angad -
Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence.
-- Hank Hanegraaff -
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
-- Hans Jonas -
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!
-- Harvey Kuenn -
Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
-- Helen Keller -
Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
-- Henry Adams -
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
-- Henry George -
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
-- Holbrook Jackson -
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
-- Horatio Nelson
