If a man look sharply, and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.40,'Of Fortune'.

Headstones stagger under great draughts of time after heads pass out, and their world must reel speechless, blind in the end about its chilling star

-Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith
  'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet', stanza 55.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 35:5^7.

Jesus answered and said unto them,Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew11:4^5.

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew15:14.

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 23:24.

Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 9:25.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
Quoted in  John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

It hasnovision, noforesight, nosight at all.If itcanbe said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. See Paley 635:16.

-Dawkins, Richard
  Of natural selection. The Blind Watchmaker, ch.1.

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appals. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.

-Dillard, Annie
  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

-Einstein, Albert
Science, Philosophy and Religion:  A Symposium, ch.13.

When you've reached myage, and your friends are beginning to worry about you, blind dates are a way of life.

-Epstein,JuliusJ
  Pete'n Tillie.

In regione caecorum rex est luscus. In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

-Erasmus, Desiderius originally  Gerrit Gerritszoon
c.1500  Adages, bk.3, century 4, no.96.

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worryabout the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to do the work.

-Feynman, Richard P(hillips)
  Nobel lecture.

His eyesight has always been weak, a sort of film over the eyes. A doctor advised him not to read, but he said, 'Then I should be ignorant', and he refused an operation because there was a thousandth chance he might go blind and so remain ignorant.

-Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta ne¤  e Persse
  Of Sean O'Casey.  Journal entry, 8  Jun.

   The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind, his heart blackening: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey peace in old poems.

-Jeffers, (John) Robinson
  Tamar and Other Poems,'To  the Stone-Cutters'.

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking inthestreet, Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Puck of Pook's Hill,'Smuggler's Song'.

Les passions peuvent me conduire; mais elles ne sauraient m'aveugler. Passions can lead me on, but never blind me.

-La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de LaVergne
  La Princesse de Cle' v es.

Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements And should give certain judgement what they see; But theyare rash sometimes and tell us wonders Of common things, which when our judgements find, They can then check the eyes and call them blind.

-Middleton,Thomas
  The Changeling (with William Rowley), act1, sc.1.

Of dire chimeras and enchanted isle And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell,^ö For such there be, but unbelief is blind.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, l.515^17.