Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
~Bible
Blind as you are, you can feel all the more what sickness haunts our city.
~Oedipus speaking of Tiresias, From Oedipus
Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich, he will grope his way toward a foreign soil, a stick tapping before him step by step.
~Another of the blindness quotes from Oedipus
Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
~William Carlos Williams
Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love.
~Thomas Fuller
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked
~Ralph Ellison from the Invisible Man
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
~Margaret Atwood. This can also be attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
~Helen Keller
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
~Samuel Butler
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains–alas! too few.
~William Wordsworth
Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
~Homer
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
~Jonathan Swift
Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
~William Watson
I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, “I see?” Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me.
~Harry Kemp
None so blind as those that will not see.
~Matthew Henry
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
~Thomas Hardy
These eyes, tho’ clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven’s hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
~John Milton
O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day.
~John Milton
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
~John Milton
Oh, say! what is that thing call’d light, Which I must ne’er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!
~Colley Cibber
He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
~William Shakespeare
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young / Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
~William Shakespeare from King Lear
Their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain.
~Martin Luther
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
~Barbara Kingsolver
I have only one eye,–I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!
~Lord Horatio Nelson
There is a budding morrow in midnight, There is a triple sight in blindness keen.
~John Keats
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