Blinded Quotes

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.

Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".

Your eyes need to be opened wider than your heart, when love is blinder than your eyes.

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.