Blind Quotes

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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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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• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Spiritual, Morning

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 25, 2010

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• The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Running, Kings, Women

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• Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Eye, Two

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• 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

  Love, Country, Memorial Day

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  You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  Malcolm X

  Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

  Theodor Adorno

  Decay, Satire, Force

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.211, Verso

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Jealousy, Envy

  Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

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• It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

  Ben Harper

  Easter, Hate, Fall

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• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  Karl Marx

  Freedom, Philosophical, Consciousness

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• Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, People, Interest

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• I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

  Loretta Young

  Dumb, Deaf, Deaf And Dumb

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Forgiving, World

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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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• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Travel, Home

  Oliver Goldsmith (1809). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher: Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country”, p.24

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• At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

  Ernst Toller

  Brother, Men, Realization

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: An Autobiography”

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• Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

  Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

  Love, Friendship, Love Is

  'Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour' (1665) pt. 1

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• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  Imre Lakatos

  Commitment, Intellectual, Virtue

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

  DeForest Soaries

  People, Voting, Machines

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• You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Mean, Eye, Light

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

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