Top 1200 Blind Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

We can't be dependent on the police all the time. We can't turn a blind eye to the crime taking place in the country because we are personally not affected.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.

The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus

This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don't know the person, it's like being on a blind date.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

It's important for us all to elect people not just on blind party loyalty. We've got to really examine what candidates say and do.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

Daley Blind, Georginio Wijnaldum and Kevin Strootman too. They are examples of how you should behave as a top player.

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

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

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.

I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.