#blind

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blind #job #kingdom #man #one-eyed

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

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

#become #belief #blind #deaf #destined

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#any #blindly #follow #hallucination #illusion

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#any #blind #blind obedience #christians #civil

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. ↗

— Ben Harper

#folk #grew #i #johnson #listening

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover. ↗

— Ben Harper

#blind #deepest #discover #heritage #musical

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#cannot #come #expectations #fact #fbi

What is research but a blind date with knowledge? ↗

— Will Harvey

#date #knowledge #research