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)