Deaf And Blind Quotes:

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

- Epicharmus of Kos

topic: Sight, Mind, Deaf And Blind

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

- Matthew Henry

source: "Exposition of the Old and New Testament".

topic: Deaf And Blind, Blind, Deaf

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2552, Delphi Classics

topic: Book, Reading, Deaf And Blind

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Reality, Deaf And Blind, World

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Niceness, Kind Thoughts

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Marriage, Husband, Funny Relationship, Husband Love, Husband Wife

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

- Robert Toombs

source: Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

topic: Years, Territory, Lasts, Territorial, Deaf And Blind

Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

- Julian Simon

topic: Moving, Past, Hands, Deaf And Blind

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

- Pema Chodron

source: Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

topic: Self, Bird, Tree, Wildflowers, Deaf And Blind

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

- Maynard James Keenan

topic: Strong, Choices, Dumb, Deaf And Blind

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Men, Self, Dwelling, Deaf And Blind

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Tired, Mindfulness, Juan, Don Juan, Deaf And Blind

The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf and blind. Without eyes or ears, they have no frame of reference-and without a frame of reference, they have no clear identities.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Eye, Night, Men, Darkness Of Night, Frame Of Reference

If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

- Ivan Stang

topic: Education, Reality, House, Well Rounded, Deaf And Blind

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Rain, Wind, Mad, Deaf And Blind