To See or Not To See

There's some old quote about there being no one as blind as the one who can't see. Well, that got me started on another Quote Post.

• Acclaimed Sci-Fi author Joan D. Vinge, reminds us of the fear that keeps so many of us blind to what we should be seeing...

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death."

• Then Walt Kelly, beloved creator of Pogo says it with his usual ability to bring you up short, before you're done.

"Now is the time for all good men to come to."

• Steven Weinberg, American physicist, presents a scary paradox that hits far too close to home too often...

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

• Proverbs always hit the point. Here's a Danish one that warns us we better not become blind by putting our heads in the sand.

“The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.”

• Mahatma Gandhi, a man of peace and hope, gives us some food for thought about what it is that may cause our blindness.

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

• And Helen Keller, a true hero with vision, brings us full circle with another way of thinking about what got me started thinking about all this in the first place.

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”