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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.
I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.
Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.
I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.
I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
To be honest, I'm no Marie Kondo at the best of times. I like living in comfortable clutter and have a peculiar kind of perception that enables me to ignore it. I call it Mess Blindness.
I ventured into fiction in 1988 with 'What Love Sees,' a biographical novel of a woman's unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness.
Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.
We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
the heart,
this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
this ultimate signature of the me, the start
of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
