Blind Quotes

I will not go on a blind date.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

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

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.

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

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!