Quotes about blindness
blindness equal execution human indeed movement nations result step stumble
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
blindness prove zeal
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. Blaise Pascal
blindness hatred
Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love. Thomas Fuller
blindness blow bows gifts god heathen kindness lavish man prospect soft spicy though vain wood
What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone. Richard Heber
blindness conceive cruelty fugitive hard independence patriotic people utter
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. Robert Green Ingersoll
blindness deny desire far greater hear love morality perfection produced properly public rather stronger
For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. Thomas Carlyle
blindness snow
You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.
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The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
blindness change changes consciousness fact failure five large last magicians visual
Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special. Richard Wiseman
blindness deal dozens fact great learn
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. Craig Venter
blindness forces gifts greater largely recognize simply smell strictly
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored. Rosemary Mahoney