#blind

The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old. ↗

— James Loeb

#added #aspirations #been #blind #day

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#been #behind #blindly #did #evil

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#going #know #then #wear #world

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#against #anesthetic #blinding #brings #conscience

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#creation #deafness #everyday #experience #familiar

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. ↗

— John Madden

#being #blind #horse #just #load

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#crazy #himself #his #i #impulses

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#blind #face #face reality #matter #reality

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. ↗