Blind Person Quotes

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  The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Women, Sight

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

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

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

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

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, People, Blind

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 326), 1995.

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• Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Voice, People

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Retirement, Self

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• Love may be blind, but if you've ever known a blind person, they still know where everything is.

  Robert Breault

  Love, May, Blind

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• Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

  Chanakya

  Education, Stupid, Book

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• If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

  Criss Jami

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Understanding

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

  Morgan Freeman

  Eye, Simple, Play

  "Morgan Freeman talks Unleashed!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Blind, Leading Me, Persons

  Source: blogcritics.org

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• Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

  Chester Bennington

  Sound, Looks, Asking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Blind, Stealing, Photograph

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.99, Anchor

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• I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Self, Miserable, Blind

  "Lessons On Blindness, 'For The Benefit Of Those Who See'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www-s4.npr.org. January 12, 2014.

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• The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Xmas, Real

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• ‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

  Hank Green

  Believe, Black, Asking

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• Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Dog, Eye, Animal

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• To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

  Unita Blackwell

  Unity, Needs, Towns

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• The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person?

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Issues, Red

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I'm a nice person! I have healthy life drives and goals! I don't drink, I don't smoke. I would never force myself sexually on a blind person!

  Woody Allen

  Nice, Goal, Healthy

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• Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

  Fred Hoyle

  Cells, Order, Trying

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• The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another.
  Jesus is the reason for the season!
  From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
  The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Jesus, Heart

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• Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

  Alex Kapranos

  Girl, Thinking, Impact

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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