“we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.”
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (1654) p. 32 http://books.google.com/books?id=nbO6Zde06ocC&q=Non+%22caecitatem+non%22&pg=PA32#v=onepage
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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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