#blindness

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes. ↗

— August Strindberg

#poison #sight #vision #vision

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. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#fools #self-deception #truth #willful-blindness #willful-ignorance

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#judgment #truth #judgment

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

— Ralph Ellison

#blindness #had #i #looked #looking

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#blindness #crowds #dark #drew #eyes

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

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#beginning #blindness #constant #eyes #fully

my baby, I think that "uterus" is blind! how can it expel you! ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#how #humor #love #uterus #love

I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt. ↗

— James Patterson

#iggy #maximum-ride #revenge #experience

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#ages #any #blindness #design #enlightened