A nation that does not know its history is a nation of the blind.
It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge.”
All human tragedies are a result of human blindness, of man’s inability to see the God who lives within him and sees Him in all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, while pain and guilt still linger here below, blindness and numbness–these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
—Michelangelo
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
—Michelangelo
It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness.
—John Milton
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
—Socrates
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.
—Immanuel Kant
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
—Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
—Immanuel Kant
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
—Mark Twain
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
—Isaac Newton
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
—George Washington
“We believe in a God of purposes and plans.
He has not left a blind fate to terrorize the world.”
— Charles Spurgeon