| | |

Blindness quotes

edits filters

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“But there’s none so blind . . . as those who will not listen.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit;” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

“sometimes a child’s innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The blind man cannot move without a guide.” Sophocles, Antigone

“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman” Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Sometimes . . . real love is silent as well as blind.” Stephen King, The Stand

“The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Humans see what they want to see.” Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

“for its vain splendour we go into the fire, thus blind ignorance does mislead us.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Related topics

love humility pride eyes knowledge happiness ignorance heart beauty reality experience hope world youth belief silence memory fault listening vanity

Related authors

William Shakespeare (7)
Jane Austen (2)
Charles Dickens (2)
George R. R. Martin (1)
Stephen King (1)
C. S. Lewis (1)
Leonardo da Vinci (1)
Neil Gaiman (1)
Ayn Rand (1)
Charlotte Brontë (1)
Albert Einstein (1)
G. K. Chesterton (1)
George Eliot (1)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1)
Alexandre Dumas (1)
Immanuel Kant (1)
John Locke (1)
Sophocles (1)
Thomas Carlyle (1)
Edith Wharton (1)

Related sources

Romeo and Juliet (3)
A Game of Thrones (1)
The world as I see it (1)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1)
Jane Eyre (1)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1)
Pride and Prejudice (1)
Mere Christianity (1)
The Fountainhead (1)
The Little Prince (1)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1)
Macbeth (1)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1)
Great Expectations (1)
American Gods (1)
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1)
Middlemarch (1)
The Merchant of Venice (1)
Critique of Pure Reason (1)
The Stand (1)