#blindness

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

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #stubbornness #americans

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

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

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