Eyes Quotes - page 8

Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. (Joseph Joubert)
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. View quote
Michelangelo
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats - we know it not. View quote
Eric Hoffer
We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important. View quote
Eric Carle
... lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we have long reached the point where we theologians only talk to ourselves and debate with our own history of concepts. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. View quote
William Shakespeare
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. View quote
William Shakespeare
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of man without an orator. View quote
William Shakespeare
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. View quote
Oswald Chambers
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. (Rabindranath Tagore)
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. View quote
Mark Twain
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. View quote
Giuseppe Verdi
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed. View quote
Federico Fellini
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead: men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideals. View quote
Charles Bukowski
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. View quote
Leopold von Ranke
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. View quote
Walter Scott
My eyes make pictures when they are shut. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. View quote
Martin Buber
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley