Blindness Quotes

• Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Vision, Doe

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  The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Women, Sight

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• There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Dark, Helping Others

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• Our very eyes
  Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sometimes, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.47

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• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Eye, Journey, Thinking

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

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Blind

  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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• I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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

  John Milton

  Able, Bears, Blind

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

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• Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

  Jose Saramago

  World, Blind

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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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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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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• We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

  Paul Haggis

  Pride, Thinking, Knows

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• Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

  Ayn Rand

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

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• Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

  Margaret Cho

  Mean, Doe, Blind

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• Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Women, Loneliness

  Christina Stead (1966). “Dark Places of the Heart”

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• I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, People, Blind

  "Blindness" by Jose Saramago, (p. 326), 1995.

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

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Retirement, Self

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• I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

  Charlie Sheen

  Blind, Shots, Fallen

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• We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

  William Carlos Williams

  Blind

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• Haste is blind and improvident.

  Livy

  Haste, Blind

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Intelligence

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Blind, Reason

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

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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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