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Quote Left I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness. Quote Right
Quote Left An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. Quote Right
Quote Left Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Quote Right
Quote Left Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings Quote Right
Quote Left People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death. Quote Right
Quote Left If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem. Quote Right
Quote Left If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, t... Quote Right
Quote Left Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. Quote Right
Quote Left Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. Quote Right
Quote Left Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. Quote Right
Quote Left There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. Quote Right
Quote Left Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. Quote Right
Quote Left L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance. (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.) Quote Right
Quote Left I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. Quote Right
Quote Left Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge. Quote Right
Quote Left A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. Quote Right
Quote Left Romans 11:25: I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not think you are superior: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in (NIV)

Lest you be self-opinionated (wise in your own conceits), I do not want you to miss this hidden truth and mystery, brethren: a hardening (insensibility) has [temporarily] befallen a part of Israel [to last] until the full number of the ingathering of the Gentiles has come in (AMP)

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. (KJV)

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Quote Left Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can. Quote Right
Quote Left To depend on one's own child is blindness in one eye; To depend on a stranger, blindness in both eyes. Quote Right
Quote Left It's a tragic irony. The sick stayed well and the healthy became blind. Quote Right
Quote Left Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Blindness

Quote Left A light in the dark is more valuable than dark in the dark, because it only brings more darkness also, too much light brings you absolute blindness for a little dark in the light makes a beauty. Quote Right
Quote Left "Madness is the first stop on the quest for truth, its symptoms are nothing more than perceptions of what ought to be but isn't ordinarily apparent, to take away the madness leads to regression to blindness, to transcend madness is to comprehend truth." Quote Right
Quote Left In people's ideological blindness one may gain insight. Quote Right

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