27 quotes about Eyes

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Auden, W. H.

The eyes of the lord are in every place seeing the evil and the good.

Bible

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Carlyle, Thomas

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Davies, Robertson

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Dickens, Charles

The eye is easily frightened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Franklin, Benjamin

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

Galsworthy, John

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Keller, Helen

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.

Milton, John

Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.

Pope, Alexander

An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.

Powers, H.

The eye is the mirror of the soul.

Proverb

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.

Proverb

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

Proverb, German

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Thoreau, Henry David

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

Wonder, Stevie