Top 100 Eyes And Ears Quotes
#1. It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.
Douglas Adams
#3. Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
Heraclitus
#4. Naturally I belonged to the bright and correct world, I was my parents' child; but wherever I turned my eyes and ears, the other world was there and I lived in it, too, even though it was often unfamiliar and uncanny to me,
Hermann Hesse
#5. For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.
George Pataki
#6. It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.
Charles Dance
#7. It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#8. Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.
P.D. James
#9. I took the decision that everything I would post would be positive. If you say, 'Ahh, I feel terrible today,' and you spread that to the eyes and ears of millions of people, that's not good.
Jerome Jarre
#10. Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.
Karen Maezen Miller
#11. If some mystical occurrences happen to us, don't we "normally" and fearfully prefer to call them strange coincidences? Or try to persuade ourselves it was only an indication of our overactive imagination? Aren't we "normally" closing our eyes and ears, refusing to face the truth?
Sahara Sanders
#12. Children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
Fanny Kemble
#13. As Trout departed, he sent this telepathic message to the Creator of the Universe, serving as His eyes and ears and conscience: Am headed for Forty-second Street now. How much do you already know about Forty-second Street?
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.
Morgan Freeman
#15. I lamented in every gathering;
I associated with those in bad or happy circumstances.
(But) everyone became my friend from his (own) opinion;
he did not seek my secrets from within me.
My secret is not far from my lament,
but eyes and ears do not have the light (to sense it.
Rumi
#16. Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes it's worse. And sometimes it's just different. It's not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Abby Rosmarin
#17. When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.
Bruce Weber
#18. Whenever you come upon a free supply of high-quality corn, provided unexpectedly right there in the middle of the forest, be careful! The people who put it there are probably sitting nearby in a stand, just waiting to take a shot at you. Keep your eyes and ears open!
James C. Dobson
#19. Be steady. Make ready. Keep your eyes, and ears, and tongues on fast so that your hearts may know that holy hunger which, once appeased, leaves you forever full. You
Mikhail Naimy
#20. Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
James P. Hoffa
#21. I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements ... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
Kate Braverman
#22. The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
CM Punk
#23. I keep my ears open. The world can change overnight; that's what happens in this world. You never know. You have to keep your eyes and ears open. If you can't keep up, you ain't gonna catch up. I've been making records since 1953, and you just have to keep up.
George Benson
#24. I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree
aren't you?
Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila
Karen Traviss
#25. Soon the purple dark must bruise
Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
And the little Cupid lose
Eyes and ears and chin and nose
Donald Justice
#26. Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
#27. The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.
Edith Wharton
#28. There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.
Marvin J. Ashton
#29. Moraga's expedition of 1806 added further to the nomenclature of the Sierra. After crossing the San Joaquin his party came to a place which his men called Las Mariposas because of the swarms of butterflies (mariposas) which flew into their eyes and ears.
Francis P. Farquhar
#30. Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.
Peter Gabriel
#31. People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.
Laozi
#32. My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.
William Shakespeare
#33. Eyes and ears are not the problem ... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#34. We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.
Henry Samueli
#35. Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.
Samuel Johnson
#36. As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.
Carl Sutton
#37. Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
Karl Marx
#38. I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
Michael Foot
#40. I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
Jill McCorkle
#41. Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.
Ethan Zuckerman
#42. I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.
Vijay Kumar
#43. Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.
Benedict Wong
#44. Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.
Robert Farrar Capon
#45. Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.
Anne Frank
#46. The human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.
Lisa See
#47. Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.
Anne Bronte
#48. Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.
Charlotte Bronte
#49. A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Zi
#50. But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#51. Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
John Jakes
#52. The eyes and ears, seeing and hearing, are external plunderers; emotions, desires, and opinions are internal plunderers. But if the inner mind is awake and alert, sitting aloof in the middle of it all, then these plunderers change and become members of the household.
Zicheng Hong
#53. But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#54. We need to keep our eyes and ears open.
C.S. Lewis
#55. There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.
Marc Cherry
#56. I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully allow them their "divine, magical, and ecstatic" existence.
Clyde S. Kilby
#57. 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 Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.
Joseph Campbell
#58. To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.
Jay Parini
#59. The funnest jokes for me to tell are the ones that are the newest. So I'm just constantly motivated to keep my eyes and ears open and have new stuff.
Brian Regan
#61. How you feel at the time affects how you receive and react to communication from others. You have to put on your objective eyes and ears in order to be consistently fair. - Charmainsim
Charmaine
#62. Use your development time to brief analysts and industry press. Use these influencers as your eyes and ears to let you know what else is being developed by competitors so that you can be the first to market, and don't make the mistake of launching an also-ran product.
Jay Samit
#63. Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.
Douglas Adams
#66. Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
Horace Mann
#67. I had thought so once
That it was I who saw in your eyes
The raindrops pinging on the windows;
Hearing only with ears
The stars and the rain;
Now that I truly open my eyes and ears
I realize that I am myself the stars and the rain.
Ilchi Lee
#68. Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#69. The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars ... and then on the surface.
Buzz Aldrin
#70. Have you decided yet what historical moment you would have most like to have witnessed with your own eyes and ears?
Padgett Powell
#71. Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#72. The fear in his eyes and in his voice telling anyone with eyes and ears of their own all they needed to know about what was in his heart.
Cameron Dokey
#73. Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
S. Jay Olshansky
#74. Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.
C.S. Lewis
#75. It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.
Jerry Spinelli
#76. If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#77. Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.
Dale Carnegie
#78. There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears
China Mieville
#80. As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
Mike Wallace
#81. He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
Michael Morpurgo
#82. Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
David Attenborough
#83. There are several ways to wear a hat or a cap. A man may express himself in the pitch or tilt of a hat, but not with a helmet. It won't go on any other way. It sits level on the head, low over eyes and ears, low on the back of the neck. With your helmet on you are a mushroom in a bed of mushrooms.
John Steinbeck
#84. Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
Jean Houston
#85. My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.
Jason Aldean
#86. I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.
Robin Givhan
#87. Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus
#88. Keep your eyes and ears wide open - and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision.
Napoleon Hill
#89. I trust people with my eyes and ears wide open.
Amit Abraham
#90. Don't let your ears hear what your eyes didn't see, and don't let your mouth say what your heart doesn't feel
Anonymous
#91. I never talked about you much. I said to Hardy. My voice sounded odd to my own ears.
Hardy stared into my eyes and nodded, understanding that some things mean too
much to be expressed easily.
Lisa Kleypas
#92. Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
Lara St. John
#93. The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
Aristotle.
#94. On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.
Morrie Ryskind
#95. I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.
Nick Cave
#96. Hunting Verse - Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white teeth, all
Rudyard Kipling
#97. The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug up our ears. We must bear witness and speak for those who cannot speak. We have only one chance to get it right.
Ken Liu
#98. The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.
Michael Morpurgo
#99. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
Harry Houdini
#100. If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.
Sylvia Plath
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