240 Quotes About Blindness

  • Author Marie Rutkoski
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    My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

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  • Author Tomas Tranströmer
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    Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

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  • Author Craig Venter
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    The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

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  • Author Richard Wiseman
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    Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special.

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