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)
“A blind man. I can stare at him
ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
No, he is in a great solitude.
O, strange joy,
to gaze my fill at a strangers face.
No, my thirst is greater than before.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“No such thing as a man willing to be honestthat would be like a blind man willing to see.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)