Racism is dead only to those who’ve closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.

Faith is intentional blindness to realities of life

…Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn’t even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was...

We’d all lost ourselves and found something far more significant together. We reached with gaping wounds for a healing we desired so badly, like a blind man picturing the world around him—the lively children skipping...

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos–...

I want to be able to see stuff,” Iggy said. “Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb’s butt.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason’s light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye...

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. … A man sees only what concerns him.

If the Blind Men could see in their dreams, they would not wake up ever again.

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a...

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.

Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out...

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements,And should give certain judgement what they see;But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wondersOf common things, which when our judgments find,They can then check the eyes, and...

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.

The hoopoe said: ‘Your heart’s congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The world is filth and...

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.”[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

I want you to trust me,” Gabe whispered against her lips.Lauren closed her eyes and fought the urge to kiss him. “I still don’t.”Gabe laughed. “Yeah, you do. You might not want to, but you...

If the blind must lead the blind, it is as wellthat the leader knows he is.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

I am not so blind that I can’t see darkness.

Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the...

They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that haven’t happened...

I wonder at times if we’re not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.

Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you’ll blind yourself to know when you’ve reached yours.

It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty just to...

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can...

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

When life’s got you down, keep your head up… you can’t see the ground anyway

Her dark world was bright because of her sparkling attitude!

How you look it is pretty much how you’ll see it

It seems that I have been held in some dreaming stateA tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake.No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber,Until I realised that it was...

I didn’t realize it until now, but I don’t really know anything about them, or what kind of people they are, really. You can’t see inside a person’s heart.

It’s a queer business, making oneself blind.

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,–“blind as a bat,” for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat,...

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning: “The girl went through the experience that...

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

Happy Birthday!” The smell of cake and the sound of feet under the table. I awake in a body that’s too big. I also dream in motion and sensation. My father’s boat and the snore...

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe’s imaginations of love were essential to the fulness of its growth. This is a common mistake on the part...