We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age. Rosemary Mahoney
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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Criss Jami
Doubt as sin. – Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
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H.l. Mencken
I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from...
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Suzy Kassem
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
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Anthony Liccione
More Quotes By Rosemary Mahoney
The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true...
When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or...
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
