Myopia Quotes

The French political class has been relentlessly myopic, if not completely blind, about the concerns of those who work and mine and farm. .... To cite Eugene Weber, One thing that we learn from history is that people seldom learn from history.

~ Ronald Rosbottom

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

~ George F. Will

That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams men have,The myopia of someone who doesn’t look very much

~ Alberto Caeiro

Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.

~ Sol Luckman

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

~ Marilyn Frye

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

~ Rémy De Gourmont

He had no ideal world of dead heroes, he knew little of the life of men in the past, he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

~ George Eliot

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders. Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.

~ Garry Wills