Quotes on Blind

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Author: Theodor Adorno

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Author: Francis Bacon

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

Author: John Barton

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Author: Marston Bates

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

Author: Boris Becker

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

Author: Paul Begala

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

Author: Cilla Black

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Author: Cate Blanchett

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Author: Charles Bowen

I will not go on a blind date.

Author: Jordana Brewster

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Author: Thomas Browne

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

Author: Ada Cambridge

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Author: Art Carney

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

Author: Ron Chernow

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Author: Joe Chung

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Author: T. Eliot

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Author: Henry Ellis

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

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

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

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

Author: George Farquhar

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Author: William Faulkner

When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.

Author: Jim Fiebig

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Author: R. Fuller

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

Author: Virginia Graham

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

Author: Ken Harrelson

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

Author: Orrin Hatch

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

Author: Bobby Heenan

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Author: Matthew Henry

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Author: Julia Howe

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

Author: Helen Jackson

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

Author: Carl Karcher

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

Author: Helen Keller

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

Author: Johnny Knoxville

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Author: Imre Lakatos

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Author: Dorothea Lange

On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Author: Tom Lehrer

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

Author: Wendy Liebman

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Author: Titus Livius

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

Author: Mark Lloyd

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Author: Karl Marx

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Author: Michelangelo

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

Author: Adam Michnik

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

Author: John Milton

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

Author: Frederica Montseny

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

Author: Horatio Nelson

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Author: Bob Ney

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Author: Andre Norton

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Author: Thomas Otway

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Author: James Patterson

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

Author: Piper Perabo

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Author: Pablo Picasso

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Author: Alexander Pope

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

Author: Ernie Pyle

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Author: Pasquier Quesnel

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

Author: Ernest Renan

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Author: Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

Author: Christina Rossetti

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

Author: Otto Schily

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

Author: Charles Secondat

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

Author: Charlie Sheen

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

Author: Edith Sitwell

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Author: Sophocles

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Author: Herbert Spencer

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

Author: Mark Strand

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

Author: Johannes Tauler

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

Author: Mark Twain

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Author: Virgil

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

Author: Cynthia Weil

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

Author: Laura Wilder

I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.

Author: Dave Willis

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

Author: Stevie Wonder

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

Author: Loretta Young

I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog.

Author: Whitney Young