Blind Spots Quotes

• We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

  Junot Diaz

  Blind, Spots

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• We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

  Bill Hybels

  Average, Weakness, Facts

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• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

  Bono

  Children, Age, Might

  Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered 19 May 2004

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• Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Believe, Men, Vision

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• We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Morning, Thinking, Stories

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• Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Missing, Brain, Use

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• Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clever, Dark, Breathing

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• Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.

  Cass Sunstein

  Views, Decision, Trends

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• Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

  Libba Bray

  Hurt, Book, Heart

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• The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. When the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. Your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. You're not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

  David Eagleman

  Space, Missing, Brain

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• The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Understanding, Principles, Moral

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• There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

  Ben Goldacre

  Ideas, Medicine, People

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• All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

  William S. Burroughs

  Honesty, Pain, Voice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

  Noah Baumbach

  Emotional, People, Intellectual

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Faithful, Religion

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• I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

  Ty Burrell

  Taken, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

  David Shapiro

  People, World, Sometimes

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

  Jacqueline Susann

  People, Giving, Hearing

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Tiger L.L.C.

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• I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Fun, Ignorance, Years

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• There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

  Paul Virilio

  Dream, Eye, Visible

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• Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Christian, Religious, Journalism

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• The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.

  C. Vann Woodward

  Philosophy, Two, White

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• We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Thinking, Numbers

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• God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Europe, Intellectual, Collectives

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Vocabulary, People, Vision

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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