Blind Quotes - Page 23

• On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Golf, Design, Shots

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• You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.34, Random House

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• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  Isaac Newton

  Ideas, Diversity, Atheism

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Dark, Night

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• Don't let your emotions get the best of you and blind you from the truth.

  Seohyun

  Drama, Emotion

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• You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.

  Chidananda Saraswati

  Life, Eye, Sight

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• Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Self, Knowing, Awareness

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• When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Natural, Believer

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• O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Men, Light, Blood

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• Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Artist, Media, Color

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Wise, Sweet, Prayer

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• The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see."

  Hubertus Strughold

  Knowledge, Science, Technology

  "From Outer Space - Advances For Medicine on Earth" by Hubertus Strughold, contributed in "Space, Its Impact on Man and Society" by Lillian Levy, (p. 117), 1965.

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• Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Truth, Struggle, Science

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• Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Views, Choices

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• Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

  Virginia Graham

  Stupid, British, Be Careful

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• Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Endurance, Body

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• To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

  Jerome Drayton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently revealed in the Gospels, but to which we are persistently blind.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Spiritual, Attitude, Character

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• Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

  Carl Jung

  Running, Spiritual, Men

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• The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

  Olivia Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Breathing

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• The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.

  William Rawle

  Gun, Power, People

  "A view of the Constitution of the United States of America". Book by William Rawle, 1829.

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• Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Darkness, Too Much

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Sight, Giving

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• Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

  Karl Barth

  Prayer, Would Be, Study

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