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Blind spot   /blaɪnd spɑt/   Listen
Blind spot

noun
1.
A subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment.
2.
The point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not sensitive to light.  Synonyms: optic disc, optic disk.





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"Blind spot" Quotes from Famous Books



... was turned inward in the endeavour to solve the riddle of her own blind spot. She said slowly: "I have known him somewhere; I am sure of that. But he is strange to me. He makes my blood run ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... spoken, that his reports contain all the returns that can be expected, or that this method is the only way of approach to truth and reality. Such claims to the rights of eminent domain and such dogmatic assertions of exclusive finality always reveal the blind spot in the scientist's vision. He sees steadily but he does not see wholes. He is of necessity dealing with a reduced and simplified "nature" which he constantly tends to substitute for the vastly richer whole of reality that boils over and ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones
... noted, the sense of smell returned, the swelling of the eyelid and proptosis decreased, but the upper lid could not be raised. When the lid was drawn up, there appeared to be vision at the margins of the field with a large central blind spot. The patient left for England at the end of ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins
... The Blind Spot opens with the words: "Perhaps it were just as well to start at the beginning. A mere matter of news." Suppose I use them ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... bad smell or a perfume, an electric spark or the colors of Geissler's tubes, a resonance with Helmholtz's reverberators, or the geometrical arrangement of fine dust on a metallic plate in vibration; the shape of a leaf or the contraction of a frog's muscle; the study of the blind spot in the eye or the rhythm of cardiac pulsation; all is equal and all is included; the eager and absorbing quest is the quest of truth. It is this which the new generation demands from science, not the oratorical art of ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori


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