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Oscar Wilde 812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes

“Appearances can easily deceive anyone except a blind person.”
“Blind faith is just another word for slavery.”
Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 25 (p. 338)

“But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.”
Sanus est, qui scit quid sit insania, quippe insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre.

[Shermer, Michael, July, 2008, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-anecdotal-evidence-can-undermine-scientific-results, How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results, Scientific American, 2008-07-24]
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 2, The Birth of Modern Science, p. 39.