Blind Quotes - Page 11

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

  Vance Havner

  Leader, Bland

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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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• True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Distance, Believe, Humility

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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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• 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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• 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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• They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

  Charles Ghigna

  Love Is, Young Love, Use

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• The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person?

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Issues, Red

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Hurt, Jobs, School

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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. Also, like most meat eaters, I was blind to the horrible ways animals are treated.

  Andy Lally

  Animal, Choices, Meat

  Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There was a lot of other young players around at that time when I was coming, but there was older people like Blind Lemon, which was one of my favorites. I don't know, just seemed like everybody I heard could play better than me.

  B. B. King

  Player, People, Young

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It’s like the song “Amazing Grace”: I was blind and now I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Song, Pain, Emotional

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.

  Judith Warner

  Retirement, Writing, School

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• History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

  Garth Greenwell

  People, Invisible, Seems

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access.

  William Bratton

  Order, Law, Effort

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter of fact, before Mike, Woody and I really got going on touring on the old Animosity stuff, Karl & I did about a dozen shows performing the Blind album from start to finish. He's still a good friend of mine and is now in a band called Lead Foot that's more Rock and Roll but they're fantastic, kind of Thin Lizzy or MC5 sounding.

  Reed Mullin

  Good Friend, Rock And Roll, Feet

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

  Reed Mullin

  Albums, Rhythm, Enjoyed

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Color, Moral, Progressive

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

  William Fitzsimmons

  People, Parent, Special

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing will bring about the type of war that will end America completely as a power in the world.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, America, United States

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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