Blind Quotations

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

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

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

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself,

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Ive done a lot of movies, but my favorite was Blind Faith.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

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

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

My husband is the romantic one in our relationship. He's always doing sweet things for me. Each year, we recreate our first date - it was a blind date, and we met at the zoo, followed by a trip to the museum. I'd have to say that's my favorite romantic date.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our secular values as well as our entrepreneurial spirit. We are appalled by the harsh laws that govern women's lives in Taliban-dominated lands. Yet we turn a blind eye to the injustices that our own society continues to heap upon women.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

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

I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

The one thing you never say to a blind person is, 'Did you see that?'

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.

The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing.

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.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

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.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it's wrong.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!