Eye Quotes
11530 Eye quotes by 5063 unique authors
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and…
— Joseph Henry
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The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
— Isaac Asimov
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it…
— Georges Cuvier
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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ...…
— Jacob Bronowski
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A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
— John Owen
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes…
— J I Packer
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.
— Francis of Assisi
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[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done…
— Samuel Johnson
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The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that…
— Joseph Campbell
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Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.
— Sri Chinmoy
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To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we…
— Nhat Hanh
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I…
— Michelangelo
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The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of…
— Ron Reagan
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the…
— Agnes Martin
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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
— Mark Twain
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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of…
— David Attenborough
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