#blind

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. ↗

— Sophocles

#every #every man #far #man #near

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not. ↗

— Tertullian

#blindness #combined #easily #kinds #really

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel. ↗

— Ben Harper

#eyes #fall #fill #gospel #hands

Who can blind lover's eyes? ↗

— Virgil

#eyes #lover #who

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away. ↗

— Christina G. Rossetti

#blind #day #eyes #facts #i

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ↗

— Marston Bates

#going #process #research #see #up

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#each #like #living #nothing #other

I will go, once I have said what I came here to say. I will never shrink from the anger in your eyes- you can't destroy me. Listen to me closely: the man you have sought for so long, proclaiming, cursing up and down, the murderer of Laius- he is here. A stranger, you may think, who lives among you, he soon will be revealed a native Theban but he will take no joy in the revelation. 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. Revealed at last, brother and father both to the children he embraces, to his mother son and husband both - he sowed the loins his father sowed, he spilled his father's blood! Go in and reflect on that, solve that. And if you find I've lied from this day onward call the prophet blind. ↗

— Robert Fagles Sophocles

#eloquent #incest #pain #prophecy #prophet

You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward. ↗

— Pricilla Cummings

#courage #life #moving-forward #roads #courage

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#beauty #blindness #beauty