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Sight

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. – English Proverb

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. – Michael Apostolius

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. – W. H. Auden

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen. – John Jay Chapman

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. – Charles Caleb Colton

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield. – Oscar W. Firkins

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love. – Thomas Fuller

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred. – Allen Ginsberg

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? – Thomas Hood

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isnt there. – L. Ron Hubbard

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. – Helen Keller

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. – John Milton

Theres none so blind as they that wont see. – Jonathan Swift

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. – James Thurber

Its sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers – Source Unknown

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things. – Stevie Wonder