It is not love that is blind but jealousy.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything even your own mind and body.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

It is quite true as some poets said that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor creating him a reasonable being yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country guided by the blind impulse of curiosity is a vagabond.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first therefore to seek them blindfold and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If this is not done future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

But blind to former as to future fate what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh I don't get involved in politics ' as if that makes someone cleaner. No that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

You don't want too much fear in a market because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Fix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because if there be one he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear.

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.