Blindness Quotes

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

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

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

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions; they hold him.

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.

You can no more have a fool as a king than a blind man to lead you along the road

Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

By logic, it's a handicap. If I shut one eye, I can't see from the other eye. But it is one of those things which I don't think too much about. One needs to have the strength to move forward.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel. These generals don’t even know where the tunnel is.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.