quotes about Blindness
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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
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But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
-- ApuleiusSource : Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics
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...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
-- Cameron DokeySource : Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
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We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
-- Daniel KahnemanSource : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.26, Macmillan
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There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
-- George Santayana -
A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
-- Ingrid Newkirk -
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
-- J. M. CoetzeeSource : J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin
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He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
-- Kit Williams -
It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
-- Michael FaradaySource : Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.474
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I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
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I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
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In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
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It's a blindness thing, faith.
-- Niall WilliamsSource : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.213, A&C Black
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Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.
-- Patrick DixonSource : "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.
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There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.
-- Paul BourgetSource : Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.152, Library of Alexandria
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Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
-- Ralph Ellison -
They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
-- Victor Hugo -
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I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.
-- Jennifer RothschildSource : Source: www.biblegateway.com
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A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.
-- Bob Allen -