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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman” Charles Dickens, “Our Mutual Friend” - 1865

“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” - 1952

“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“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” - 1920

“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” - 28 January 1813

“But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit;” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“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” - 1861

“But there’s none so blind . . . as those who will not listen.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“sometimes a child’s innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“The blind man cannot move without a guide.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“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” - 1689

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.” Jane Austen, “Mansfield Park” - 1814

“He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“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” - 1872

“Sometimes . . . real love is silent as well as blind.” Stephen King, “The Stand” - 1978

“for its vain splendour we go into the fire, thus blind ignorance does mislead us.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

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