quotations about blindness
The eyes are blind when the mind is elsewhere.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Sententiae
There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Ghost Sonata
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
MAHATMA GANDHI
disputed attribution, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
A blind man will suffer himself to be led, though by a dog, or a child.
ROBERT BOYLE
Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
JULIA WARD HOWE
Reminiscences
And if you try a little kindness
Then you'll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets
GLEN CAMPBELL
"Try a Little Kindness"
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns.
ANDREW MARVELL
Character of Holland
Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light,
Which I must ne'er enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy.
COLLEY CIBBER
The Blind Boy
But as a blind man start an hare.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The House of Fame
What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Daybreak
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means "Sent"). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
BIBLE
John 9:1-7
Better one-eyed than stone blind.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
I've gotten really hot since you went blind.
JOHN GREEN
The Fault in Our Stars
the blindest people think
they can see the most
DAHI TAMARA KOCH
Within the Event Horizon
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"War"
We'll follow the blind side of him.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Gentleman Usher
Blinder than a trebly-bandaged mole.
C.S. CALVERLEY
Lines on Hearing an Organ
For Blindness is the first born of Excess.
LORD BYRON
Heaven and Earth
Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
JOSE SARAMAGO
Blindness
But have ye not heard this,
How an one-eyed man is
Well sighted when
He is among blind men?
JOHN SKELTON
Why Come Ye Not to Courte?