#blind

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

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#blind #love #madness

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. ↗

— Tom Waits

#blind man #bulb #cane #imagination #like

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#angry #bee #blind #buzzing #every

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#blind #considered #itself #man #resistance

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#coming #highway #how #know #like

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? ↗

— Michelangelo

#blind #cannot #clothed #empty #fact

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#because #blindfolded #boldness #call #even