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  • Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

    Art   Men   Perception  
  • Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

    Spiritual   Men   Wake Up  
    Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

    Beauty   Men   Sight  
  • The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

    Dream   Nature   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press
  • Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

    "Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits". Interview with Joan Anderman, www.boston.com. May 22, 2008.
  • Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

    Men   Two   Rooms  
    "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.
  • Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.

    Fashion   Men   Blue  
    Andrea Levy (2010). “Small Island: A Novel”, p.383, Macmillan
  • O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

    Men   Light   Blood  
  • Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

    Men   Light   Blind  
    Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.787, My Ebook Publishing House
  • No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

    Truth   Honesty   Men  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.124, New Directions Publishing
  • If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

    Men   Light   Meditation  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1970). “The only revolution”, Not Avail
  • A blind man can see how much I love you

    Love You   Men   Blind  
    Amy Bloom (2003). “Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude”, Vintage
  • I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

    Dark   Men   Blind  
    John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin
  • Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

    Men   Thinking   Feelings  
  • Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action

    Flower   Writing   Men  
  • The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

    Believe   Men   Essence  
    "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.
  • As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

    Wise   Science   Men  
    Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation
  • After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

    Men   People   Edinburgh  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.375, Courier Corporation
  • A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

    Eye   Men   Soul  
  • The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

    Believe   Men   Two  
    "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.
  • In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

    Strong   Men   Two  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.209, Courier Corporation
  • I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.

    Dark   Men   Hands  
    "Transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966". "Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics" by Clifford Ross, pp. 73-75, 1990.
  • There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

    Avi
    Men   Eyelashes   Blind  
    Avi (2012). “Beyond the Western Sea #1: Escape From Home”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.
  • A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.

    Men   Joy   Solitude  
    Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”
  • I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

    Funny   Reading   Humor  
  • Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

    Lying   Past   Men  
  • You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115

    Real   Men   Visitors  
  • A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

    Beautiful   Girl   Wise  
  • We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

    Men   Language   Speak  
  • The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

    Home   Men   Cells  
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