Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
My generals are always right about other people’s wars and wrong about our own.
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.
It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.
Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.
You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.
The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.
A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?
It is very easy for whites to miss problems that aren’t our own; that’s a function not of being white but of being human.
In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there is an institution in your society that is above criticism, you’re giving it a free pass.
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
