Blind Man Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Eye, Men

  Song: She Sings Songs Without Words, 1974

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• He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?

  Pierre Charron

  Eye, Men, Long

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

  Jack Ma

  Men, Riding, Blind

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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 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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• 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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• 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- under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.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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• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

  Plutarch

  Teacher, Nature, Men

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• What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Zero, Men, America

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

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

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• The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

  John French Sloan

  Black And White, Men, Color

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• After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

  Frederic Chopin

  Men, People, Edinburgh

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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• There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Men, Vision

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• Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Men, Wake Up

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Men, Light, Blood

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• A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Soul, Blind

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• A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.441, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of the Lord. We are characterized by whether we respond zealously or lackadaisically to the kindly dispensations of God. This perspective is plainly expressed in the healing of the two blind men. Jesus was passing by, a fact made possible by God's provident grace. And the achievement of their own faith and belief was to cry out 'Lord, son of David, have mercy on us' (Mt. 20:31). The restored sight of their eyes is the gift of divine mercy.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.98, Paulist Press

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• What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Mirrors

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• The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Believe, Heart, Fate

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

  Rumi

  Eye, Men, Soul

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• When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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