Quotes About Eye Openers

#1. Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It's only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.

Swami Satchidananda

#2. A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Beautiful relations are based on bricks of trust, sometimes situations become unfriendly with no logical reasons behind it, some are eye-openers and some make you realize your faults , but if your intentions are right be bold enough to face all oppositions.

Dipika Agarwal

#4. Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

Bell Hooks

#5. I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#6. Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

Jean Genet

#7. Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives, over like well behaved puppets on a string ... slavery is returning by choice.

L.M. Fields

#8. Even trees do not die without a groan.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.

Louise Penny

#10. She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Thomas Harris

#11. To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Sophocles

#12. From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#13. She wore defeat like a piece of cheap jewelry. "Worshiping them. Anointing them with oil, Mrs. Gervais," I said.

Pat Conroy

#14. Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

#15. Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
-Dr. Jose Rizal

Jose Rizal

#16. When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

Confucius