Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness."
Blindness quotes
Blindness
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Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman."
Jose Saramago
Writer
"Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are."
George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself."
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"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."
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"Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it."
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"Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not."
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"If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God"
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"M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more"
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"They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness."
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"God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!"
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"A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families."
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"Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct."
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"The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good."
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"It's a blindness thing, faith."
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"The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us."
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"I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved."
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