#blind

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. ↗

— John Barton

#blind #disregard #good #how #inappropriate

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#interest #makes #others #people #some

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. ↗

— Martha Beck

#any #because #blindly #built #denial

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. ↗

— Boris Becker

#blind #cup #davis #davis cup #emotions

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. ↗

— Paul Begala

#against #assaults #attacks #blind #blind eye

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

— Chester Bennington

#blind #blind person #describe #guess #i

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#blind #blind eye #companies #congress #ends

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

#king #kingdom #man #one-eyed

It’s scary to be a woman on a blind date. For all she knows the man she is meeting up with could be a rapist, a murderer, or, God forbid, a politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #murderer #politician #politics #rapist

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. ↗

— Iain Pears

#blind-faith #disagreement #discussion #doctrine #faith