“Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Geoffrey Moore, title of book chapter in: The Business Book, 2014. Dorling Kindersley Ltd, p. 316
“Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Unsourced in The Philosophy of Mark Twain: The Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Genius (2014) by David Graham
Disputed
“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.”
Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) film director
Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Letter to Dr. James Kerr Love (1910), published in Helen Keller in Scotland: a personal record written by herself (1933), edited by James Kerr Love. Paraphrasing of this statement may have been the origin of a similar one which has become attributed to her:
Context: The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus — the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.
“Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
About the human dependency on language to communicate, as quoted in The Washington Post (18 June 2011)
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge