#blind

Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings. ↗

— John Green

#blind #hazel-grace #isaac #grace

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#blind #case #character #could #elektra

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#fools #self-deception #truth #willful-blindness #willful-ignorance

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#blinded #compassion #facts #false-interruptations #guessing

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side. ↗

— John Fahey

#death #first #good #guy #i

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not. ↗

— Tertullian

#blindness #combined #easily #kinds #really

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#blind #body #does #even #everything

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ↗

— Marston Bates

#going #process #research #see #up

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#each #like #living #nothing #other

I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#blind #dates #dog #free #get