Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind. — Paul Virilio
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. — R. D. Laing
Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge. — Krister Stendahl
Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own. — Arabic Proverbs
The eyes do not see what the mind does not want. — Indian Proverbs
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrogance leaves us blind to our weaknesses. — Adam Grant
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. — Evita Peron
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. — Sophocles
People cannot see past their limitations and they take them for truth. — Tom Bilyeu
The monkey does not see his own hind backside; he sees his neighbor's. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side. — Desiderius Erasmus
Short Blind Spots Quotes
It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk. — Gene Simmons
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. — Thomas Carlyle
Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure. — Kamala Harris
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself. — Bulgarian Proverbs
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow. — Rabindranath Tagore
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy
Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see. — Martin Offiah
We humans are better at pointing out the elephants in other rooms than in our own. — Lex Fridman
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. — Kahlil Gibran
One eye saw and the other eye did not see. — Moroccan Proverbs
Blind Spots Image Quotes
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Spot Quotes
Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out. — Al Capone
If something sucks, I've always been completely vocal about it, and I've been punished many, many times because of that. But I don't think I'd be in the spot I'm in right now if I wasn't me. I've always just been me. — CM Punk
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. — Archimedes
The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. — Pablo Picasso
Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom. — Lilias Trotter
When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots? — Shel Silverstein
The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation. — Jefferson Davis
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. — Isabel Allende
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right. — Elinor Ostrom
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. — Lee Iacocca
I Am Not Blind Quotes
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled — Bruce Lee
Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity. — John Kennedy Toole
I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me! — Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. — Jose Saramago
Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things. — Stevie Wonder
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. — Mary Harris Jones
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. — Mother Jones
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm. — Virginia Woolf
Being Blind Quotes
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. — Helen Keller
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
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. — Albert Einstein
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. — Albert Einstein
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. — Saadi Shirazi
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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
If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress.
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot. — Farid al-Din Attar
What you need is a challenge network. I think of a challenge network as the group of your most thoughtful critics who are able to hold up a mirror so that you can see your blind spots and then know what you need to rethink. — Adam Grant
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. — Vance Havner
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. — Bono
I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them. — Charles Francis Richter
Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light. — Wayne Dyer
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay. — Ben Goldacre
We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot. — Steven Soderbergh
All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. — William S. Burroughs
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots. — Bill Hybels
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. — Albert Einstein
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. — Hunter S. Thompson
Terrorist are picadors and matadors. They prick the bull until it bleeds and is blinded by rage, then they snap the red cape of bloody terror in its face. The bull charges again and again until, exhausted, it can charge no more. Then the matador, though smaller and weaker, drives the sword into the soft spot between the shoulder blades of the bull. For the bull has failed to understand that the snapping cape was but a provocation to goad it into attacking and exhausting itself for the kill. — Patrick J. Buchanan
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be. — Ty Burrell
The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles. — Jacob G. Hornberger
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots. — Jeremy P. Johnson
I always have to add to a team someone who is a highly tactile, list-oriented person who keeps us on track. And call them a COO or executive all-star, or whatever. I need to balance myself with people around this table who are much better at organizing, which is certainly a blind spot of mine. — Alexis Maybank
For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I realize I hate while I'm making it. So then the next play is always a rebellion. Or like, the thing I didn't even realize I was doing last time I will make sure I don't do this time. But there's always some other blind spot. And then that blind spot inspires the play that comes after. — Annie Baker
Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well. — Jeffrey Rosen
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior. — Noah Baumbach
... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages. — Sarah-Patton Boyle
Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism. — D. Patrick Miller
We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us. — Junot Diaz
Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do. — David Shapiro
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time. — Wyndham Lewis
In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings. — Suzy Kassem
The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful. — Matthew Polly
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic. — Joseph Auslander
Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing? — Jacqueline Susann
Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism. — Cass Sunstein
Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us. — Libba Bray
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb. — Charlotte Bronte
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane. — John Green
Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge? — Kelley Armstrong
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. — Michael Crichton
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. — Jonathan Sacks
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