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Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climber

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus. – Desiderius Erasmus
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. – F Scott
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read. – Mark Twain
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein
The blind also cry. – Charles de LEUSSE
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound. – Helen Keller
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi
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. – Thomas Jefferson
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. – Dee W. Hock
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis
The blind man is laughing at the bald head. – Persian Proverb
A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand? – The Hitopadesa
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. – Sextus Propertius
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind. – Albert Schweitzer
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. – Saint Jerome
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. – Matthew Prior
Blind belief is dangerous. – Kenyan Proverb
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. – William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared. – Isaac Newton
Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. – Dejan Stojanovic
Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. – German proverb
Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human. – William Sloane Coffin, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript310_full.html

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