“There are none so blind as those who see angels…None so deaf as those who hear gods.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 288)
“Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?”
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.
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Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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(1932) American pianist, singer and songwriter
Pop Chronicles: Show 5 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. (Part 1) https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19751/m1/#track/6, interview recorded 1.2.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.
“6172. Who so blind as he,
That will not see?”
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(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
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