Blind Eyes Quotes:

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Say I Love You, Marriage And Love Inspirational

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

- Robertson Davies

source: Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

topic: Educational, Optimistic, Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

- Emmanuel Jal

topic: Eye, People, Evil, Mean People, Blind Eyes

Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

- Harun Yahya

topic: Wisdom, Islamic, Eye, Sidelines, Blind Eyes

Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Hurt, Real, Eye, Accepting Reality, Awfulness

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Eye, Mind, Vision, Eyes Looking, Eyes That See

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

- Samuel Beckett

source: Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

topic: Eye, Ostriches, Fool, Blind Eyes

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Revenge, Eye, Kings And Love, Best Revenge

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Innovation, Souls In Love

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

- St. Jerome

topic: God, Eye, Light, Blind Eyes

You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.

- Chidananda Saraswati

topic: Inspirational Life, Eye, Sight, Blind Eyes

We can't say that we believe in each other's fundamental humanity, and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each other's existence, and the truth of each others' hearts. We must be allies and we must be allies in this business, because to be represented is to be humanized, and as long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

- Kerry Washington

source: Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

topic: Believe, Heart, Eye, Blind Eyes

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

- Joan D. Vinge

topic: Men, Land, Belief, Minority Report, Blind Eyes

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

source: Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

topic: Struggle, Eye, Past, Political Oppression, Armed Struggle

But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

- Dennis Lehane

topic: Eye, Thinking, Self, Blind Eyes, Self Absorption

Blind eyes cannot read.

- Peter Greenaway

topic: Eye, Blind, Blind Eyes

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

- Lori Foster

topic: Children, Eye, Focus, Blind Eyes

We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.

- Shane Claiborne

source: Source: medium.com

topic: Eye, Thinking, Deserve You, Blind Eyes

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

- Pope Gregory VII

topic: Eye, Law, Church, Blind Eyes

Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Jesus, Eye, Men, Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Friendship, Best Friend, Special Friendship, Blind Love

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

- Sienna Miller

topic: Eye, Long, Blind, Blind Eyes

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

- Susan Sarandon

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Eye, Justice, Trying, Blind Eyes

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

- Steve Forbes

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Eye, Chinese, Spy, Keeping Silent, Blind Eyes

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

- Voltaire

topic: Love, Self, Anorexia, Narcissist, Love Is Blind

It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.

- Trevor Manuel

topic: Country, Eye, Support, Blind Eyes, Multinationals

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes

Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Eye, Meat, Facts, Peacekeepers, Blind Eyes

I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

- Tom Morello

topic: Hero, Eye, Government, Whistleblowers, Blind Eyes

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Time, Best Revenge, Eye For An Eye

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

- Desiderius Erasmus

source: Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

topic: Wisdom, Kings, Men, Minority Report, Blind Eyes

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

- William Blake

source: William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

topic: Love, Joy, Mind, Joy Of Living, Love Is Blind

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Eye, Love Is, Blind, Blind Love, Love Is Blind

The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for the sake of a balanced relationship, bound to turn a blind eye to obvious, blatant violations of human rights and the deconstruction of democratic institutions in these countries.

- Garry Kasparov

source: Source: www.rferl.org

topic: Country, Eye, Violation Of Human Rights, Deconstruction, Balanced Relationship

We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.

- Rowan Williams

source: Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.188, A&C Black

topic: Eye, Animal, Ecosystems, Importation, Blind Eyes

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

- Horatio Nelson

topic: Eye, Sometimes, Blind, Horatio, Blind Eyes

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

- Junot Diaz

source: "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

topic: Beautiful, Country, Mistake, Blind Eyes

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

- Vera Brittain

topic: War, Writing, Mean, Blisters, Mustard Gas

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

- Richard Ney

topic: Real, Eye, Race, Blind Eyes

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert's review of "Drag Me to Hell", www.rogerebert.com. June 3, 2009.

topic: Eye, Gypsy, I've Learned, Blind Eyes

What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?

- Robert Atkins

source: Robert C. Atkins (1972). “Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever”

topic: Eye, Dark, Age, Carbohydrates, Blind Eyes

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

- Iris Johansen

source: Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam

topic: Eye, Going Away, Why Not, Blind Eyes

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Eye, America, Life Is, Downward Spiral, Blind Eyes

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

- Lil Wayne

source: Song: Life of Mr. Carter, Album: Tha Carter III, 2008

topic: Eye, Looks, Blind, Blind Eyes

I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.

- Joe Eszterhas

source: "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

topic: Eye, Thinking, People, Blind Eyes

Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

- Elton Gallegly

topic: Country, Eye, Law, Blind Eyes

Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Deaf Ears, Contention, Peacemaker, Blind Eyes

We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a test for humanity and moral dignity. Because turning a blind eye to such horrible and shameful crimes means indulging terrorists and aggressors and violating high European values for which Ukrainians are suffering and dying.

- Petro Poroshenko

topic: Mean, Eye, Humanity, Blind Eyes, Tribunals

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…

- Keri Hulme

source: Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.71, LSU Press

topic: Eye, Hands, Sacred, Feeler, Sacred Things