Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument. – Julian Baggini
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen! – James Thurber
I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays. – John Patrick Shanley
If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. – Adam Michnik
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. – Imre Lakatos
I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies. – Charlie Sheen
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. – Alexander Berkman
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. – Chester Bennington
‘Blind Date’ was based on an Australian show called ‘Perfect Match’, which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t on British T.V. – Cilla Black
‘Blind Date’ was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world. – Cilla Black
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ – Colum McCann
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free. – The Bible Luke 4:18-19
Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun. – Armistead Maupin
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. – Alexander Herzen
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind. – Betty White
The biggest crime in Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ is imposing your own dream upon someone else’s reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn’t see Lolita’s reality. He doesn’t see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. – Azar Nafisi
When you do cross-breeding of plants, you’re doing this blind experiment where you’re just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. – Craig Venter
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. – Andre Norton
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else. – Brownie McGhee
We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests. – Carl Karcher
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. – A. J. Liebling
The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces. – Ann Nocenti