Blindness famous quotes

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.
-- Anais Nin

#History #Prejudice #Blindness

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
-- Anne Carson

#Smart #Blindness #Very Smart

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.
-- Apuleius

#Insanity #Existence #Blindness

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
-- Cameron Dokey

#Kind #Blindness #Worst

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
-- Charles Dickens

#Love #Said #Blindness

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.
-- Charlie Sheen

#Blind #Blindness #Fallen

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
-- Christina Stead

#Women #Loneliness #Blindness

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
-- Daniel Kahneman

#Blind #Obvious #Blindness

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.
-- Ellen Hopkins

#Color #Culture #Blindness

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
-- George Santayana

#Atheism #Life Is #Blindness

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
-- Ingrid Newkirk

#People #Ethical #Blindness

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
-- J. M. Coetzee

#Ignorance #Certain #Blindness

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

#Calling #Distraction #Blindness

Haste is blind and improvident.
-- Livy

#Haste #Blind #Blindness

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 Faraday

#Principles #Should #Blindness

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

#People #Blind #Blindness

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.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Work #Blindness #Inseparable

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Football #Balls #Blindness

It's a blindness thing, faith.
-- Niall Williams

#Blindness

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.
-- Patrick Dixon

#Corporations #Blindness #Threat

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.
-- Paul Bourget

#Blindness #Complicity

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
-- Peter De Vries

#Love #What Is Love #Blindness

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
-- Ralph Ellison

#Vision #Blindness

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
-- Victor Hugo

#Love #Heart #Blindness

I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.
-- Jennifer Rothschild

#Years #Minutes #Blindness

Envy-Thy art blindness
-- Aftab Alam

#Art #Envy #Blindness

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.
-- Bob Allen

#Abuse #Clamor #Blindness

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.
-- Joaquin Rodrigo

#Spiritual #Blindness #Spiritual Life