Thomas Fuller Quotes

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I never thought of being disadvantaged.

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

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

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.

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

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

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.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

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

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

Light means nothing to a blind man.

Should I tell you one thing, I am blind from my right eye. I see only from my left eye. The one you see is someone else's eye which was donated to me after his death. If I close my left eye, I can see no one.

Everything is different when you're not in the starting position.

I've got all the tools to make it hard for anyone, especially someone that's a division lower than me.

It's terrible, a crutch, isn't it?

I was born with a different physical capacity to other people.

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.