Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind. — Yiddish Proverbs
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. — Jose Saramago
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Deaf people can do anything, except hear. — Marlee Matlin
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena. — Edward Miner Gallaudet
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! — Helen Keller
In the company of the blind, close your eyes. — Turkish Proverbs
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. — Helen Keller
When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. — Swedish Proverbs
The longer the blind live, the more they see. — Yiddish Proverbs
If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane — Sayings
Short Blind And Deaf Quotes
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing. — Helen Keller
The deaf man cannot hear, but he composes well. — Mexican Proverbs
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget
Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long. — Leonid Andreyev
Disability is the inability to see ability. — Vikas Khanna
There's none so blind as those who will not listen. — Neil Gaiman
It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man — Greek Proverbs
Say what you want about the deaf. — Jimmy Carr
Blind And Deaf Image Quotes
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
See And Blind Hear And Deaf Quotes
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism. — Charles Spurgeon
Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see — Unknown
The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind. — Proverbs
If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness. — Jane Roberts
Deaf Dumb And Blind Quotes
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. — Proverbs
Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's — Marian Keyes
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me. — Maynard James Keenan
The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization. — Frederick Lenz
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. — Loretta Young
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. — Robert Anton Wilson
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are. — Malcolm X
Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead? — Dalton Trumbo
Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative. — Francine Pascal
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. — Napoleon Hill
Deaf And Blind Quotes
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. — African Proverbs
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan — Carlos Castaneda
Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore
If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant. — George A. Sheehan
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf. — Claude Monet
Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We only see the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. — Marilyn French
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity. — Helen Keller
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. — Carlos Castaneda
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being Deaf Quotes
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world. — Oliver Sacks
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own. — Harlan Lane
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. — C. S. Lewis
I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. — Evelyn Glennie
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. — Thomas Brooks
If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress.
If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free. — Bhagat Singh
How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection. — Hsu Yun
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. — Jean De La Bruyere
Deafness Quotes
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippmann
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis
No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen. — Yiddish Proverbs
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. — Albert Bandura
The eyes are useless when the mind is blind...
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. — Bob Riley
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. — Wilfred Burchett
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. — Simon Bolivar
Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't. — Fanny Crosby
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way. — Lady Gaga
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision
You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets. — Glen Campbell
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral. — Christopher Hitchens
What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction. — Francis Galton
The eyes are useless when the mind is blind...
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. — Bob Ney
So many people play smaller than their potential because they are blinded by the overwhelming nature of the problem and don’t realize that they themselves can come up with the solution and execute. — Tom Bilyeu
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides. — Heinrich Heine
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have. — Shoshannah Stern
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. — Eduardo Galeano
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear. — Thomas A. Edison
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. — Voltaire
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others. — Thomas A. Edison
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost. — P. D. James
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. — Charles Dickens
Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way. — Grace Gealey
Blind Person Quotes
I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking. — Saddam Hussein
The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel — Guru Gobind Singh
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. — Chester Bennington
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. — Oliver Sacks
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. — Chanakya
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. — Michael Redhill
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. — T. S. Eliot
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. — Ivanka Trump
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Being Blind Quotes
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. — Malcolm X
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon? — Omar Khayyam
If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour. — Fanny Crosby
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I can guide you if you feel blind, I just need you to be willing to journey into my ILL Mind. — Hopsin
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. — H. G. Wells
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind. — Sayings
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. — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind. — Chris Hedges
Colorblind Quotes
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. — Michelle Alexander
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. — John Marshall Harlan
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. — Gabrielle Union
I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market. — Dennis Miller
I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family. — Michael Jackson
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school. — William H. Gray III
I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind. — Michael Rosenbaum
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. — Wesley Morris
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting. — Michael Medved
Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus. — Alistair Begg
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. — Helen Keller
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. — Carlos Castaneda
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person. — Theodore Zeldin
Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem? — Charles Stanley
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. — John Florio
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? — Bob Monkhouse
Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear. — Charles Spurgeon
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. — Robert Toombs
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound. — Helen Keller
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late. — Thomas Carlyle
Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind. — Epicharmus of Kos
The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind. — Edgar Allan Poe
I never taught a blind/deaf chick to read, but somehow I've managed to turn Scrubs into a watchable show. That may not sound like much, but take a look at my surrounding cast and ask yourself, who's the real miracle worker? — Zach Braff
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. — Adam Michnik
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf. — Herb Kohl
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