Blind Man Quotes

• You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

  Marilyn Manson

  Men, Blind, Like You

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

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

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

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• Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Men

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

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Civilization

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Men, Way, Blind

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• 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

  Art, Men, Perception

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• Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

  Robert Hunter

  Men, Hands, Blind

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

  Mark Twain

  Relationship, Kindness, Men

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• The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched.  That is the way we can hope to know God.

  Kent Nerburn

  Buddhist, Men, Elephants

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.118, New World Library

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• Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Men, Two, Rooms

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Motivational, Beautiful, Eye

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• My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

  Tom Waits

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Strong, Men, Two

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise.

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Men, Numbers

  "Diagnosing 'Emily Rose'" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 18, 2005.

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• If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.  But do your work and I shall know you.  Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.  A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity.  If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Men, Games

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Broadview Press

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• It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

  Lech Walesa

  Horse, Men, Today

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• I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

  Jack Ma

  Men, Riding, Blind

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• I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Ignorance, Eye

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• Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.

  John Green

  Daughter, Men, Doors

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• Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, People

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• A blind man can see how much I love you

  Amy Bloom

  Love You, Men, Blind

  Amy Bloom (2003). “Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude”, Vintage

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• A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Blind, Incomplete

  Victor Hugo (1887). “Notre-Dame. With Illus. by Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Johannot, and Others”

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• And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Men, Way, Saws

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• Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Failure, Pride, Men

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

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• It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Doe, Cactus

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 29, 2011

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