Blindness

“Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.” Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?” Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

“The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. We sightless children had the best of eyes that day in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the child's necessity of being happy. The blind who have outgrown the child's perpetual joy can be children again on Christmas Day and celebrate in the midst of them who pipe and dance and sing a new song!”

“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.”

“The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus — the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.”

“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”

“O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,Without all hope of day.”

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”

“He that is strucken blind cannot forgetThe precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

“There's none so blind as they that won't see.”

“Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Oh, tell your poor blind boy!”

“None so blind as those that will not see.”

“Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore;Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.”

“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”

“These eyes, tho' clearRight onward.”

“And when a dampSoul-animating strains—alas! too few.”