Quotes about eyes

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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.

— W. H. Auden

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.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

— Sir Thomas Browne

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Robertson Davies

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

— Charles Dickens

The eye is easily frightened.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— John Galsworthy

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.

— Helen Keller

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— John Milton

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— H. Powers

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.

— German Proverb

Do everything as in the eye of another.

— Seneca

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

— Publilius Syrus

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

The eye is the jewel of the body.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Stevie Wonder

Eyes have specific language, which we can’t express in words, can only be found۔

— Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist)