#blind

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ↗

— Anais Nin

#become #blindly #cease #dogma #grow

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. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#conquering #consists #courage #danger #overlooking

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it. ↗

— Katy Perry

#ambition #blind #born #going #gotten

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fate #former #future #his #knows

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#faults #kind #little #their #very

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#makes #others #people #self-interest #some

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

#blindness #excepting #folly #gifts #give

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#blindness #had #i #looked #looking

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#blind #destroy #free #imprison #make