Victor Hugo Quotes

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

I never thought of being disadvantaged.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Blind eyes cannot read.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.