#blind

Wherever love is blind, hatred can't see. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hate #hatred #love #see #love

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#blindness #blindness-of-man #damnation #damned #faust

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

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears. ↗

— José Saramago

#evolution

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #stubbornness #americans

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

— John Barton

#blind #disregard #good #how #inappropriate

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#before #blind #bogart #color #could

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#blind faith #discouraging #expedient #faith #inquiry

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believing #blinded #fall #fallible #human

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#blindness #crowds #dark #drew #eyes