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I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.
Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.
One of the worries about a presidency is that everybody tells you yes. Nobody helps you figure out where your blind spots are.
Cell-based and regenerative medicine can restore human functions lost to disease, including returning some sight to the blind.
Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don't know the person, it's like being on a blind date.
Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or another nation's.
Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.
I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
Some of our favorite bands are, like, Third Eye Blind and Counting Crows, and stuff like Danny Elfman and Jon Brion movie scores.
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
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.
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
It's important for us all to elect people not just on blind party loyalty. We've got to really examine what candidates say and do.
I'm legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing.
I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.
I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.
Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It`s the only way.
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.