A Quote by Moliere

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

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Blind Clear Everybody Them Themselves Would

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Moliere
French - Playwright
January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.

Rosemary Mahoney

Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.

Paul Driessen

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

Patrick Ness

What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.

Leonard Ravenhill

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Francis Beaumont

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

Morgan Freeman

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Rosemary Mahoney

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Vladimir Putin

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Agnes Repplier

Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

Claude Bernard

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

Dean Koontz

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Jane Porter

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.