Old Eyes Quotes

• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Soul, Truthful

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

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• Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Men, Understanding

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• Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.

  Lister Sinclair

  Eye, Differences, Vision

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• I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Eye, Years, Feels

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• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  Bill Cosby

  Fake People, Sleep, Eye

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

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• And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Philosophy, War

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• The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Eye, Leaving

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• Compassionate the mountains rise
  Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
  That, having looked on life time out of mind,
  Know that the simple gift of being kind
  Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.

  DuBose Heyward

  Wise, Kindness, Eye

  DuBose Heyward (1924). “Skylines and Horizons”

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• He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Philosophy, Hate

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• When I got hit I went from having 37-year-old eyes to having 65-year-old eyes. That's why I've got the glasses on - so my eye isn't constantly trying to focus and giving me headaches. But they also help me see better: my right eye is blurry.

  Chris Pronger

  Eye, Glasses, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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