Blind Quotes - Page 35

• Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

  Vanna Bonta

  Love Is, Blind Love, Love Is Blind

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• Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Motivational, Beautiful, Eye

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• We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspiration, Ambition, Play

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• Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

  Howard Hughes

  Flying, Mind, Would Be

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• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Roots, Acorns

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• Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

  John Marshall Harlan

  Powerful, Color, Law

  Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, (559), 1896.

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• In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

  John Dewey

  Light, Energy, Use

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.318, SIU Press

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• Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

  Charles Lamb

  Art, Past, Looks

  Charles Lamb (1860). “Essays of Elia”, p.23

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• The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Mind, Reason

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

  Joan Didion

  Self, Hands, Play

  "On Self-Respect". Vogue Magazine, www.vogue.com. 1961.

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• Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.

  Max Horkheimer

  Mean, Fate, Men

  Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.126, A&C Black

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• To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

  Louis Althusser

  Eye, Dark, Looks

  Louis Althusser, François Matheron (1997). “The spectre of Hegel: early writings”, Verso Books

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• So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Differences, Attention

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Men, Done

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• For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?

  Isaac Babel

  Dream, Heart, Play

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• Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Order, Conviction

  Charles Hodge (2014). “Systematic Theology”, p.1289, Ravenio Books

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• I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Trying, Muhammad

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

  Helen Keller

  Attitude, People, Handicaps

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.105, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

  Jim Stovall

  Recovery, Healing, Emotional

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• It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.

  Boris Johnson

  Ecosystems, Greed, Understanding

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• TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Life, Wish To Die, Giving

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• The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.

  Virginia Henderson

  Love, Confidence, Mother

  "A Virginia Henderson Reader: Excellence in Nursing".

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• Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Believe, Eye

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.

  LaVell Edwards

  Leadership, Eye, Cocky

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