Barbara Boxer Quotes

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

People never notice anything.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

The South has eyes but does not see, and ears but does not hear.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

… looking and not seeing things was a great sin.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

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

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.