Blind Quotes - Page 12

• There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can impose their will on other people. Whatever bad reason they use to persuade others, these self-centered people are so caught up in the process that it seems to them all they have to do is to speak their wishes in a lofty and commanding tone of voice in order to convince everybody.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Ignorance, People, Darkness

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• Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Pain, Ignorance, People

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• So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.

  Muhammad Ali

  Names, Dumb, Islam

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.

  Christina Grimmie

  Song, Couple, Dad

  Source: joonbug.com

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• Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.

  Ben Harper

  Heal

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Thinking, Blind Spots, Race

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Loyalty, Opposites, Acting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must recognize that real people with real problems are affected by the decisions rendered by the court. Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

  Herb Kohl

  Real, Exercise, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Global warming is another big area that we need to get on top of. And diseases in Africa, which we're also working on and seeing if we can make a difference on. And there are lots of issues that governments seem to be blind about.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Issues, Government

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• People tell me, "Well, you understand where the voters are, Jeff, where the votes are, or what people are thinking," and they'll sort of - in a complimentary way. And it's a bit of an acknowledgement that we've been blind to some of these issues for too long.

  Jeff Sessions

  Thinking, Issues, Long

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Donald Trump is appealing to, that whole expression, everybody who asked me, why is Trump able to win in those 16 people? There's a whole expression. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I'm not very good at prognosticating but I would not be surprised if he's the nominee.

  Joe Biden

  Kings, Men, Winning

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Business empress, now super-surrogate: Can Ivanka Trump be dad’s deal-closer?" by Jennifer G. Hickey, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2016.

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• Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Discouraging, Fanaticism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• They didn't send me the script for Scary Movie 4 because the script was very secretive. So I never did get one actually. But it is David Zucker and there is complete trust. So I read my scenes and I thought they were really funny. I thought it would be a riot to play the blind girl.

  Carmen Electra

  Girl, Play, Scary

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Color, People

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Reason can in general do more than blind force.

  Cornelius Gallus

  Reason, Force

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• A word on miracles.... Don't let those that have not yet transpired, blind you to those that have.

  Mike Dooley

  Spiritual, Miracle

  Mike Dooley (2008). “More Notes From the Universe: Life, Dreams and Happiness”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Unity is not blind allegiance.

  Michael Pfleger

  Unity, Allegiance

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• I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.

  M. C. Escher

  Fate, Light, Shining

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• We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough.

  Khalid Abdul Muhammad

  Baby, Gains, Killing

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• I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

  Frank Gehry

  Waste, Alleys, Edits

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Running, Blind Belief, Magic

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I started going blind and my optic nerves of my eye started giving me tunnel vision. I also started fainting a bit and struggling to think. I felt a lot of pressure in my head all the time. That was when it got too much. I'm in a very, very fortunate position now where I've had it taken out once. And now it's back I'm being monitored. I think people at home should be checked for this.

  John Newman

  Struggle, Taken, Home

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Country, People, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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