A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.
There were screaming girls, I had to learn as a blind person how to run to a limousine otherwise they'd take my clothes off and stuff. I thought to myself 'how could this happen?' I mean I could see it, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, but Jose Feliciano? It was a mystery to me.
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
Many players in the big blind get in trouble by calling pre-flop raises; they try to do too much. They don't want to get bullied, so they attempt a tricky check-raise bluff or overplay their hands in an ill-advised effort to push back.
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.