Welcome to Blind Quotes, a collection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes on the topic of blindness. Within these lines, you’ll find expressions that transcend physical sight, delving into the depths of perception, insight, and understanding. As Helen Keller once said, The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. These words encapsulate the essence of our exploration – the notion that true vision extends beyond the limitations of the eyes, encompassing the realm of the mind and spirit.
Blindness, in its literal sense, may signify the absence of sight, but the quotes gathered here illuminate the richness that can still be found within darkness. They remind us that sight is not solely dependent on the eyes, but rather, it emanates from the soul’s capacity to perceive and comprehend the world around us. Through the words of philosophers, poets, and visionaries alike, we uncover profound insights into the human experience, shedding light on the beauty and complexity that exists beyond the visible spectrum. Prepare to embark on a journey of enlightenment and inspiration as we explore the myriad perspectives on blindness, each offering a unique glimpse into the boundless depths of perception. Now, without further ado, let these quotes serve as beacons of wisdom and contemplation, guiding us through the uncharted territories of understanding and insight.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Francis Bacon
Love is blind. Geoffrey Chaucer
I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance. Charles Bukowski
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. Bruce Springsteen
Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. Madeleine L’Engle
In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time. Tupac Shakur
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. Georges Rouault
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. Voltaire
Don’t worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. John Madden
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? Alexander Pope
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen! James Thurber
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them… and royally squander their lives with her. Nikos Kazantzakis
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory. Saint Teresa of Avila
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. Chanakya
I’m going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind – blind ambition, and it’s kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I’ll stick to it. Katy Perry
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? Montesquieu
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne
Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. Pablo Picasso
What we call ‘morals’ is simply blind obedience to words of command. Havelock Ellis
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Imre Lakatos
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. Rodney Dangerfield
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.
I’m legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing. Grace Potter
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Julius Gordon
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. Lyndon B. Johnson
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Kurt Vonnegut
I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not support him but I believe that Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a long time. He’s bringing out the country’s ugliness. There’s no turning a blind eye anymore. Daryl Davis
During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam’s razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God. Paul Kalanithi
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. Heinrich Rohrer
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. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies. Charlie Sheen
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. Arthur Schopenhauer
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself. Leon Trotsky
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. John Adams
What is research but a blind date with knowledge? Will Harvey
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. George Bernard Shaw
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. Thomas Huxley
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. Theodor W. Adorno
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. Raymond Holliwell
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. James Patterson
I’ve been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog. Whitney M. Young
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. Alfred Russel Wallace
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. Blaise Pascal
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower. Thurgood Marshall
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. Nancy Pearcey
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. Robert Green Ingersoll
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why. Ernest Renan
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. Meryl Streep
Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people’s perception, so they can influence what people do without them even realizing it. Once you know how to push people’s buttons, you can play them like a piano. Tristan Harris
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society’s care. Camille Paglia
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. Martha Beck
We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know. Daniel Kahneman
Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions. Li Lu
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. William Blake
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? Michelangelo
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. Jose Saramago
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare
I’m blind without my glasses. Adam Ant
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. R. Buckminster Fuller
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. Jefferson Davis
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. Roger Waters
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. T. S. Eliot
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist. Margaret Cho
Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. John Wycliffe
Hatred is blind, as well as love. Oscar Wilde
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. E. O. Wilson
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. Richard Dawkins
One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark’s Saturday night ‘American Bandstand’ show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia. Robert C. Merton
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. Mary Wollstonecraft
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. Matthew Henry
There’s nothing better than a good, blind referee. Bobby Heenan
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Rumi
We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help. Sam Houston
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Unknown
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind. Betty White
I don’t know what religious people do. I kind of wished I’d been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. Marcia Wallace
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. Omar Bongo
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. Albert Camus
We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority. Condoleezza Rice
I’m colour blind, a little hue-challenged. Duff McKagan
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern
Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn’t therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she’s an atheist. Ray Comfort
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. Aung San Suu Kyi
Look your best – who said love is blind? Mae West
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. Sylvester Stallone
The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free. Tom Fitton
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. Stevie Wonder
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Helen Rowland
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
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. Lawrence Durrell
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. John Milton
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is. Neil Strauss
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Marx
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal! Horatio Nelson