#blindness

I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth. ↗

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

#blindness #clear #fool #love #wise

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

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#creation #deafness #everyday #experience #familiar

And you're blind?" Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored. Were you born that way?" No." How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened. ↗

— James Patterson

#humor #maximum-ride #humor

my baby, I think that "uterus" is blind! how can it expel you! ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#how #humor #love #uterus #love

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. ↗

— José Saramago

#inspiration #privacy #inspirational

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness. ↗

— William Watson

#children #hate #mistrust

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Gerald Massey

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#cognition #communication #community #senses #sociality