Blindness to Reality Quotes

When ignorance is bliss, / Tis folly to be wise.

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.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

How the hell can you expect those guys to catch spies when they can't smell the stink under their own noses?

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the modern, western, secular mind set. They don't believe evil exists. They are exactly the ones who are in danger of getting blindsided by evil. Because they're not prepared for it.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.