Blind Quotes - Page 2

• Hatred is blind, as well as love.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

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• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Reason, Dies

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

  John Milton

  Able, Bears, Miserable

  John Milton, George Burnett (1809). “The Prose Works of John Milton: Tenure of the magistrate (continued)”, p.357

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• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Faith, Christian

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Civilization

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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• In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Country, Kings, Government

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Retirement, Self

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• The blind cannot see the sun.

  Kedar Joshi

  Sun

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• But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

  Mark Strand

  Thinking, Self, Expression

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Time

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• Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?

  Johannes Tauler

  Self, Ignorant, Depth

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• There's none so blind as they that won't see.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Blindness

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.446

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• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Success, Kings, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 17, 2015

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• Look your best - who said love is blind?

  Mae West

  Inspiring, Anniversary, Sexy

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

  Herbert Spencer

  Past, Majority, Facts

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.5

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• Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Looks, Invisible

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Fortune'

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• In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

  Tupac Shakur

  Time, Men, Mind

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me Now, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Faith, Death, War

  "The Boss picks his voice of America" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

  Omar Bongo

  Sacrifice, Men, World

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• Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

  Stevie Wonder

  Blessed, Able, Lasts

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

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• Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

  Martha Beck

  Love, Said, Accuracy

  "Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic".

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