Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 3, “Raker” (p. 79)
“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Manitoba: Clandeboye, p. 168.
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
short quotes, 31 October 1966; p. 58
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.”
Aurea Dicta XLIV, p. 15.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)
“Like a moth to a flame
Burned by the fire.
My love is blind
Can't you see my desire?”
That's the Way Love Goes
janet. (1993)
“6172. Who so blind as he,
That will not see?”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another…”
Source: The Diviners
“Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness”
England to Ireland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
On painter Rufino Tamayo.
I Used to Believe I Had Forever — Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)
Context: He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that — great good God, think of it — we're alive, and on our way to weather, from the sea to the hot interior, to watermelon there, a bird at night chasing a child past flowering cactus, a building on fire, barking dogs, and guitar-players not playing at eight o'clock, every picture saying, "Did you live, man? Were you alive back there for a little while? Good for you, good for you, and wasn't it hot, though? Wasn't it great when it was hot, though?"
“They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.”
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)
“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Vergil in Averno (1987)
