I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
None so blind as those who will not see.
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!
How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.
The situation in the [North Caucasus ] region can easily get out of control if the capital inflow is interrupted. It is apparent, even when leaving democratic institutions and values aside for a moment, that [Vladimir] Putin's regime has led the country down a blind alley. Our task is to usher in a shift of paradigms, a new foundation.
Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a song I had been covering before the show, so it was very dear to my heart.
Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind
But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. " I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
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
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.