`` How can you tell an insane man to reason or a blind man to see ''??

How far could it be, Watson thought bleakly, how far can a blind man crawl??

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

The new birth is necessary because the natural man is spiritually dead and blind.

A sighted man finds himself in a country that has been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, wherein all the inhabitants are blind even as their ancestors had been.

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in the care of the Fremen, while his sister Alia rules the universe as regent.

The clear implication is that to bare one's throat would be tantamount to suicide ( which Jewish law forbids ) and it would also be considered helping a murderer kill someone and thus would " place an obstacle in front of a blind man " ( i. e., makes it easier for another person to falter in their ways ).

He further demonstrated the reason for the inclusion of the Greek text when defending his work: " But one thing the facts cry out, and it can be clear, as they say, even to a blind man, that often through the translator ’ s clumsiness or inattention the Greek has been wrongly rendered ; often the true and genuine reading has been corrupted by ignorant scribes, which we see happen every day, or altered by scribes who are half-taught and half-asleep.

He is credited with coining the adage, " In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king ".

* Jesus lays his hands on a blind man twice in curing him: ; cf.

Galilee is also cited as the place where Jesus cured a blind man.

Almost blind, and having lived in England for almost fifty years, he died a respected and rich man.

This led to many tales that he was a hostage or a blind man.

Jesus healing a blind man in Jericho, El Greco

Voight next appeared in a cameo role in Oliver Stone's U Turn, portraying a blind man.

There they proceeded to mock the blind man, prompting Wermund to challenge their king to a duel — but the king stated that he would not fight a blind man.

Pippa is slightly dim-witted, for example believing Victor had murdered an elderly blind man simply because the victim had been found clutching a double-one domino in his hand, and Victor had two pimples on his nose.

Other characters that had to incur the wrath of Punch varied depending on the punchman, but the most common were the foreigner, the blind man, the publican, the constable, and the devil, however the most interesting and developed relationship continued to be that of Punch and Judy themselves ( Crone 1058 ).

The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast ( 1904 ), which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.

In one experiment studying eye development, University of Maryland scientists transplanted lenses from the eyes of sighted surface-form embryos into blind cave-form embryos, and vice versa.

" The Country of the Blind ", a short story by H. G. Wells, is one of the most well-known stories featuring blind characters.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

The woman, created by the Lord, is the representation of maya, and one who associates with such maya by accepting services must certainly know that this is the way of death, just like a blind well covered with grass.

Male chauvinism has been defined as a “ blind allegiance and simple minded devotion to one ’ s maleness that is mixed with open or disguised belligerence toward women.

However, visual impairment can be a broader term, including, for example, people who have partial sight in one eye, those with uncorrectable mild to moderate poor vision, or even those who wear glasses, a group that would be excluded by the word blind.

By substituting these three verbs, even without clarifying morality ( ought, shall, should, must ) or the actor ( s ) who do or did something, becomes / remains / equals makes clear what time frame of relationship is asserted, and disallows assuming one stable past / present / future timeline-known as single scenario planning or blind linearity and considered a grave error in risk analysis.

That same year, Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein.

The Christian Gospels state that Jesus passed through Jericho where he healed one or two blind beggars and inspired a local chief tax-collector named Zacchaeus to repent of his dishonest practices.

As a result, all kinds of stuff gets in its way, including a bunch of wiring that passes through the eye and leaves us with a pair of blind spots, one in each eye.

It is one of the successes of the series that readers are drawn to feel for Tarr while the writing never turns a blind eye to his politically-incorrect attitudes.

Death threats against Mahfouz followed, including one from the " blind sheikh ," Egyptian theologian Omar Abdul-Rahman.

The one exception is when there are only two players ( a " heads-up " game ), when the player on the button is the small blind, and the other player is the big blind.

And even if no one does, seven of them ( all but the two players in the blind ) will have position on Carol in the next three betting rounds.

Instead, Aeschylus includes this one oblique allusion to Pandora and her jar that contained Hope ( 252 ): " caused blind hopes to live in the hearts of men.

Several among his cardinals who had been shut up in Nocera with him and had followed him in Genoa determined to make a stand: they determined that a Pope, who by his incapacity or blind obstinacy might be put in the charge of one of the cardinals.

dervishes who stand with the stillness of the blind, their eyes filmed with rheum and visions ; ;

J. Wheaton Smith, editor of the Warren Telegraph stated that `` the ends of justice must be satisfied, a solitary example must be set, in order that all those misnamed philantropists, who, actuated by a blind zeal, dare to instigate riot, treason, and murder, may heed it and shape their future course accordingly ''.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

Cady snapped the Venetian blind shut and slammed himself down before the typewriter, rolled in a fresh sheet, and gave his letter the same savage attention he bestowed on a salesman who needed to have the bucket taken off his thick head.

An adapted abacus, invented by Tim Cranmer, called a Cranmer abacus is still commonly used by individuals who are blind.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees ( the norm being 180 degrees ) are also classified as being legally blind.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

Most people are familiar with Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf, but there has been considerable progress since the publication of her work.

* Jorge Luis Borges, who suffered from a congenital condition that caused him to become blind by middle age, discussed his condition in many autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works.

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident.

While Yahweh demands animals that are " without blemish " ( Leviticus 1: 3, NRSV ), the priests, who were " to determine whether the animal was acceptable " ( Mason 143 ), were offering blind, lame and sick animals for sacrifice because they thought nobody would notice.

In Romanian folklore the Măiastra is a beautiful golden bird who foretells the future and cures the blind.

* Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who was born blind and uses optical implants combined with a removable unit called a VISOR, to see.

Guest played a small role in the 1977 All In the Family episode " Mike and Gloria Meet ", where in a flashback sequence Mike and Gloria recall their first blind date, set up by Michael's college buddy Jim ( Guest ), who dated Gloria's girlfriend Debbie ( Priscilla Lopez ).

The title, " Letter on the Blind For the Use of Those Who See ", also evoked some ironic doubt about who exactly were " the blind " under discussion.