Blind Quotes

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

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

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.