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“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific belief is based on publicly checkable evidence, religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its joy, shouted from the rooftops.�� However, taking Dawkins own advice we ask: where is the evidence that religious faith is not based on evidence? Mainstream Christianity will insist that faith and evidence are inseparable. Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. The apostle Paul says what many pioneers of modern science believed, that nature itself is part of the evidence for the existence of God ,�� Since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature �� have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So that men are without an excuse.�� Dawkins�� definition of faith turns out to be the direct opposite of the biblical one. Curious that he does not seem to be aware of the discrepancy.”
― John Lennox

“Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.”
― April Henry, Girl, Stolen

“These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(...)You turn to them for answers and salvation. (...) You rely more upon them than upon yourselves. This makes you weak and stupid. You trust in words. Drops of ink. Do you ever stop to think of who put them there? Or why? No. You simply accept their words without question. And what if those words speak falsely, as they often do? This is dangerous.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“We’d all lost ourselves and found something far more significant together. We reached with gaping wounds for a healing we desired so badly, like a blind man picturing the world around him—the lively children skipping rope, green grass, blue sky. It’s like that man standing in his vision, rising from the park bench, arms outstretched, taking the first steps into a world he only hopes exists.”
― Christopher Hawke, Unnatural Truth

“Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.”
― Mark Twain

“A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.”
― Samuel Butler

“Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through on the other side.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.”
― Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

“Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become fogged with the lack of perception stained with the sting of longing. The voice of reason is lost in the envious echoes of hearts torn by battle. The song of our children echo the misfortune of their parent's haze---we all started out small and had dreams to become something more than what we were.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The prospect of happiness has a way of clouding up a person’s vision. When you are in love, the kind of love that comes way too fast and way too strong, the flaws of that person you love seem to disappear.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to me.”
― Chamera Sampson, In My Face

“Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.”
― Anthony Liccione

“O Nanak, if a blind man goes to assay jewels, he shall not know their worth and shall return after making an exhibition of himself.”
― Guru Angad, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

“To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out to be constructed in such fashion that the parts of the animal could satisfy its needs; in another, infinitely greater number, there was neither suitability nor order: all of the later have perished; animals without a mouth could not live, others lacking organs for reproduction could not perpetuate themselves: the only ones to have remained are those in which were found order and suitability; and these species, which we see today, are only the smallest part of what blind fate produced.”
― Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

“If the sky has turned a darkened grey and the sea threatens to spill the occupants in the boat, know that the Lord God made the storm still, and though you shall face storms in your life the Lord God will still them with his hand. When you are alone, Jesus will have his arms wrapped around you, holding you tightly, the angels shall call out your name when you feel that you have been deaf, and you shall see the light of Heaven when you think you are blind. When you feel your dreams are broken it does not do well to cast yourself into misery but look at the brighter side of life, and see all the Lord has blessed you with!”
― Ariana Pedigo, Little Man

“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain, and it was dying to come out on paper. It was begging of me to create it, but I didn’t know where to begin. A month after giving birth to the idea, I felt like I was losing my mind. Ideas would pop into my head in the middle of the night, or during a midterm, and I missed them, quite narrowly, almost every time. Every time an idea left my mind without taking the shape of a word on paper, my mind would automatically begin to churn something just as impressive, or at least close to it. I was digging myself into a shallow grave, and I was getting nowhere. And this was even before the thoughts were committed to paper.”
― Leigh Hershkovich

“Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I am not bold, just blind.”
― Arzum Uzun

“They, who have no eyes in their face, are not called blind. They alone are blind, O Nanak, who stray away from their Lord.”
― Guru Angad, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

“It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light”
― josh stern

“The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide.”
― Truth Devour, Wantin

“Su idioma eran las texturas y los ecos, el color de las voces, el ritmo de los pasos.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A mute mentor & blind novice
I grabbed your hand; made me wise..."

-Shahzaib”
― Shahzaib Ansari

“Всички носим следи от някакво крушение. Ние сме слепци, които опипват пътя. Аз живеех в пълен мрак и нямах никакъв път.”
― Рангел Игнатов, Сбогом любов