Famous quotes containing the word blind:
“By the mud-sill theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should beall the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly.... Free labor insists on universal education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
“But he though blind of sight,
Despisd and thought extinguisht quite,
With inward eyes illuminated
His fierie vertue rouzd
From under ashes into sudden flame,
And as an evning Dragon came,”
—John Milton (16081674)
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