Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

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

Blind eyes cannot read.

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

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

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

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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

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

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

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.

Okay... That's still blind-making.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.