Blind Quotes - Page 10

• 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- under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.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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• Our very eyes
  Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sometimes, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.47

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• You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to think that this earth that we live in only has 6000 years of existence. It just doesn't.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Years, Dumb

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• Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done, oh sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn will I ever see your sweet return, oh will I ever learn? Oh, Lover you should've come over. Oh love well I'm waiting for you.

  Jeff Buckley

  Sweet, Fun, Men

  Song: Lover, You Should've Come Over, Album: Grace, 1994

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• Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Our Society, Lost, Imagery

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• In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground....I will not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and blind us.

  John Shelby Spong

  Buddhist, Prayer, Believe

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• I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

  Randall Robinson

  Self, Racist, Worn

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.

  Seymour Papert

  People, Sound, Machines

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present themselves at the location. Be flexible, and be patient. Leave ego at home. Get the photo before you yell at the asshole, not after.

  Peter Menzel

  Home, Thinking, Ego

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• Michael Jordan was blessed by God to play basketball and Roger Brown was the closet person to him I ever saw. I don't say that lightly. Roger was phenomenal. There was nothing he couldn't do. He was so quick he would trick people blind - I even saw him miss layups because he was laughing so hard at what he had just done to someone.

  Mel Daniels

  Basketball, Blessed, Laughing So Hard

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• [E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.

  David Horowitz

  Heart, Reality, Light

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• One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

  Drew Houston

  Optimism, Entrepreneur, Tolerance

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• Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

  Vance Havner

  Leader, Bland

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• Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Love Is, Only Love

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• Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Devotion, Communist, United Nations

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Use, Tomorrow

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• When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

  Bill Moyers

  Couple, Theology, Ideology

  "On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2005.

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

  Jack Ma

  Men, Riding, Tigers

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• A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.

  Rajneesh

  Dirty, Flower, Eye

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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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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Two, Giving

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• Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

  Karl Barth

  Crush, Heaven, Shining

  Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

  John Irving

  Presidential, Agendas, Devotion

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Perseverance, Firsts, Persevere

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• If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

  Alan Watts

  Seeking, Ifs

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