Top 1200 Blind Belief Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

None is so blind as he who sees too much.

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Never be led in new paths by the blind

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

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

You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

My lashes are so long that if I don't curl them, I'm blind.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

The ability to help others gain insights seems very important to me, and I think one of the most effective, but most difficult, ways is to listen sympathetically when people seem to be saying stupid things or thinking in confused ways. Rather than write them off, we can try to diagnose what is wrong with their thinking - what flawed belief they might be holding. And then search for ways that enables them to discover the flawed belief for themselves.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

None so blind as those who will not see.

We believe in the joy and power of music, and we also see that to make this kind of statement today, you need to be a hero, because there are more dominant beliefs - like the belief in power itself or in fame or in money. Our belief in the power of music is something that really needs a strong position in order to keep it up for a lifetime - and hopefully even beyond. We don't want to miss out on the chance to give food for thought to other generations that may relate to it in a way that is not yet foreseeable.

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

I am like a blind pig when I work.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.

Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.

We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

In a sense, traditional business is design blind.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night

If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Always work the ref's blind side.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Light means nothing to a blind man.

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.