quotations about blindness
The blind man of colours all wrong deemeth.
THOMAS HOCCLEVE
De Regimine Principum
A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Better be blind than to see ill.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
A blind man cannot judge well in hues.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Troilus and Criseyde
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN
attributed, Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
HELEN KELLER
The Five-Sensed World
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
Adagia
The blind eat many a fly.
JOHN LYDGATE
Ballade
Every paradise is made possible by blindness.
LESLIE JAMISON
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Human kindness--River blindness
Black flies rise as the water flows
Human kindness--River blindness
Angels cry as the fever grows
THE J. GEILS BAND
"River Blindness"
Every picture has it's shadows
And it has some source of light
Blindness, blindness and sight
The perils of benefactors
The blessings of parasites
Blindness, blindness and sight
Threatened by all things
JONI MITCHELL
"Shadows and Light"
Folk oft times are most blind in their own cause.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me?
Oh my heart
Love is blindness
U2
"Love Is Blindness"
O, loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeons or beggary, or decrepit age!
JOHN MILTON
Samson Agonistes
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
JOSE SARAMAGO
Blindness
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
JESUS
Matthew 15:14
I who am blind can give one hint to those who see--one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind.
HELEN KELLER
Three Days to See
By wondrous accident perchance one may
Grope out a needle in a load of hay;
And though a white crow is exceeding rare,
A blind man may, by fortune, catch a hare.
JOHN TAYLOR
A Kicksey Winsey
Who is so deaf or blind as is he
That wilfully will neither hear nor see?
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is;
For the former seeth no man, and the latter no man sees.
FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU
Sinngedichte