Michael Lovett, in Ch. 33
Barbary Shore (1951)
“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)
“Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Gilbert Ryle book The Concept of Mind
Source: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. I: Descartes' Myth, (1) The Official Doctrine
“There are none so blind as those who see angels…None so deaf as those who hear gods.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 288)
“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
“Without “big data”, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.”
Geoffrey Moore (1946) American business writer
Geoffrey Moore, title of book chapter in: The Business Book, 2014. Dorling Kindersley Ltd, p. 316
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“[T]he blind lead the blind, it's the democratic way.”
Henry Miller book The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
Source: "With Edgar Varèse in the Gobi Desert", p. 166
