#blind

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. ↗

— Roger Waters

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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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