Amy Lowell Quotes

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

People don't see much further than their noses.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

So, blind to Someone I must be.

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

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

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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.

Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.