Eyes Quotes

"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount"

Lara St. John, Musician

"After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn"

Albert Hofmann, Scientist

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"

Bob Marley, Musician

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus"

Mark Twain, Author

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night"

Victor Hugo, Author

"When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always"

Willa Cather, Author

"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul"

Ovid, Poet

"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below"

George Orwell, Author

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

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