The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.
Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.
Why do we let blind people and people in wheelchairs become citizens? I feel sorry for cripples, but that doesn't mean I want them in my country.
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Love is blind.
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.
