Best blind & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”

Age Loss Enemy Sight Blind Complaining Chains Thee Blindness Dungeons Decrepit Beggary

Author:John Milton

“Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.”

World Firsts Persons States Hands Seems Age Past Moving Humanity Dies Information Materials Evidence Blind Entertainment Speed Senses Perceive Goods Deaf Acquaintance Deaf And Blind

Author:Julian Simon

“In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.”

Source: Silent Spring

“The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.”

Knows Long Reality Happens Age Values Movement Ethics Ultimate Blind Protest New Age Alleys Validity Recommendations Fertility

Book:Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth

Source: Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth

“His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.”

Made Government Age Lying Common Blind Court Common Sense Dumb Hypocrisy Betray Complaints Flattery Deaf Calumny

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.”

Age Asks Love Is Blind True Love Is Gallant

Book:Jack Spurlock, Prodigal

Source: Jack Spurlock, Prodigal

“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”

Stills Age Past Found Stars Stage Blind Mere Suggestions Limitless Expanse Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Author:Novalis

“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.”

Needs Made Age Poverty Trouble Sick Blind Sickness Goods Needy Lame

Author:John Wycliffe

“The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.”

Source: The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution

“In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.”

Eye Age Causes Type Blind Related Junk Degeneration

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.”

Men May Age Struggle Bed Limits Blind Nonviolence

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.”

“Every age is blind to its own worst madness.”

Age Worst Madness Blind

Author:Allan Bloom

“The 'blind trust' is an age-old ruse. You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they're going to take advantage from me.”

Thinking Giving Might Would Be Age Interest Conflict Advantage Blind Property Sellers Conflict Of Interest Blind Trust

Author:Mitt Romney

“For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.”

Age Form Artist Teaching Particular Demand Blind Distinction Conventions Deaf Transitory

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

Children Might Age Moral Ethics Our Children Blind Spots Massive Blind Spots

Author:Bono

“The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.”

Men Children Age Night Games Lord Sun Heard Fool Moon Blind Chaos Flight Hills Lions Fourth Deaf

Author:Robert Jordan

“It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!”

Hard Age Today Stupid Thousand Blind Architecture Bored

Author:Andre Breton

“It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.”

Mean Age Quality Highest Blind Old Age Intensity

Author:Booth Tarkington

“This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.”

Humans Age Human Beings Technology Meditation Stage Yoga Blind Science And Technology Blind Faith

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.”

Age Blind Flash Lit

Author:T Bone Burnett

“Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected in a written document now yellowed with age . . . [F]or many Americans the bicentennial celebration will be little more than a blind pilgrimage to the shrine of the original document now stored in a vault in the National Archives. [Progressive]”

Littles Feelings Age Justice Written Proud Constitution Originals Blind Patriotic Progressive Celebration Documents Foresight Pilgrimage Proclamation Shrines Archives Vaults Framers

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.”

Source: The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed

“Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!”

People Age Middle Strange Pride Blind Torture Chamber Middle Ages Arsenal Blind People

Author:Bertha von Suttner

“If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (.....) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.”

Ifs Different Stories Shows Age Force Sleep Pleasure Novel Blind Ill Contemporary Obsession Collections Bites Angle Alienation Strangeness Enigma Different Angles Radiohead Conundrums

Author:Antoine Wilson

“For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.”

Art Hands Age Together Past Literature Genius Letters Sight Blind Goddess Hand In Hand

Author:Howard Pyle

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