Blind Spot Quotes

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening.

Most men … can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives

The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

There are times when you win and you don't see mistakes.

None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

I don't have a rear-view mirror.

When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.

The capacity of this body for self delusion appears to this Senator to be unlimited.

Even intelligent people succumb to their own propaganda.

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. When the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. Your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. You're not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

If you only talk to people who agree with you, it’s easy to believe that you’re in the majority.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. So what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? Does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? Obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?