Quotes about Blinded

Blinded following the Blindfolded Votes: 3

Whether someone wants to learn the words to a new Lady Gaga song they heard on the radio or to verify the lyrics to 'Blinded by the Light', the LyricWiki community delivers. Votes: 3

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that. Votes: 3

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within. Votes: 3

Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite. Votes: 3

I was blinded by being a romantic person. Votes: 1

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see. Votes: 1

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. Votes: 1

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does. Votes: 1

I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film. Votes: 1

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. Votes: 1

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. Votes: 1

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. Votes: 1

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one. Votes: 1

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray. Votes: 1

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. Votes: 1

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants. Votes: 1

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else. Votes: 1

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. Votes: 1

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence. Votes: 1

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby. Votes: 1

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful. Votes: 1

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that. Votes: 1

It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light Votes: 0

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity. Votes: 0

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press. Votes: 0

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. Votes: 0

There is no truth I hate, it is blinded by rage. Votes: 0

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity. Votes: 0

Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see. Votes: 0

I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry. Votes: 0

It's crazy what a heart blinded by love can lead you to believe. Votes: 0

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Votes: 0

Most men are blinded by the words Bad Bitches and end settling for less! Votes: 0

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog. Votes: 0

Most men are blinded by the words "Bad Bitches" and end settling for less! Votes: 0

Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses. Votes: 0

Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time. Votes: 0

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... Votes: 0

He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool. Votes: 0

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision. Votes: 0

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it. Votes: 0

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. Votes: 0

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. Votes: 0

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science. Votes: 0

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves. Votes: 0

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. Votes: 0

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture. Votes: 0

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. Votes: 0

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women. Votes: 0

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties. Votes: 0

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them. Votes: 0

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. Votes: 0

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is. Votes: 0

Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded. Votes: 0

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded. Votes: 0

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. Votes: 0

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination. Votes: 0

Most of us are so focused on what we don't have that we're blinded to what we do have. Votes: 0

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded. Votes: 0

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. Votes: 0

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans. Votes: 0

Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge? Votes: 0

Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body. Votes: 0

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires. Votes: 0

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view. Votes: 0

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality. Votes: 0

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love. Votes: 0

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Votes: 0

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. Votes: 0

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded! Votes: 0

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are. Votes: 0

Somehow, I feel almost blinded myself.And I am forever left to wonderWhether telling you how truly specialYou were Might have made a difference. Votes: 0

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed. Votes: 0

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement. Votes: 0

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way. Votes: 0

Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator. Votes: 0

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Back when I was younger, Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger. Some say I dream too big, And my dream gon' take me under. Votes: 0

Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better? Votes: 0

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit. Votes: 0

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint. Votes: 0

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine. Votes: 0

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". Votes: 0

Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled. Votes: 0

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition. Votes: 0

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice. Votes: 0

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze. Votes: 0

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon. Votes: 0

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders. Votes: 0

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. Votes: 0

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. Votes: 0

Once we experience divine guidance, we begin to make changes within ourselves, mentally, physically, and spiritually. We are no longer lost in the world, we can finally see. No longer blinded by the enemy. Votes: 0

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God. Votes: 0

Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot... Votes: 0

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor. Votes: 0

When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture. Votes: 0

'That's nonsense young one, Your dreams are not very logical '' - '' The only non-sense I see here, is a living a life; blinded, By all that could have taken your breath away. Votes: 0

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift. Votes: 0

We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us. Votes: 0

Say that i starved, that i was lost and wearythat i was burned and blinded by the desert sunfootsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases,lonely and wet and cold, but that i kept my dream! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see Votes: 0

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0