Blinders Quotes

“We just need to remove the blinders from our eyes to have a neutral, level-headed and logical viewpoint based on self-evaluation.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Like everyone else at the Anchorage, except maybe for Natalie, Jonah had developed the blinders that allowed him to dance on. That prevented him from seeing the gradual decline of everyone around him; that allowed him to pretend that they weren't all heading for the same tragic end. The band played on as the ship sank beneath them. Distracted by the magic of music, they would keep dancing until the waves closed over their heads.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.”
― Willowy Whisper

“Horses' eyes are covered with blinders to keep them unaware of their surroundings and focused on the race or pulling a wagon. Horses without blinders are horses who can be themselves. I want Adam to be himself, without any blinders, which only means I must continue telling him the story.”
― Hani Selim, Osama's Jihad

“Don’t kid yourself, Professor. The powerful don’t think things over. They just react. It’s all they know.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“A horse’s field of vision, with both large eyes open,
covers three hundred and fifty degrees. Only a little is missing.
A few inches directly in front of the face, a sliver behind the tail.
Sometimes an era, a country, turns into a horse.
A plunging forward. Its own stinging bee that it flees.
Denying future and past, trampling people as if they were pliable grasses.”
― Jane Hirshfield