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“To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.”

Knows Eye Truth Education Knowledge Society Ignorance Invisible Noses Throat True Believer

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.”

Eye Given Knowledge Flower Drink Noble Meat Honey Bees Passive Favour Insects Here And There Apollo Collecting Hints Dew Receptive Sap Hurrying Honey Bee

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.”

Eye Knowledge Sight Curiosity Senses Objectives Sensual Strain Through The Eyes

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.”

Mind Eye Dark Sin Knowledge Gone Knowing Birth Apples Adam Self Knowledge Adam And Eve Sins Not

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.”

Knows Men Years Mean Art Wisdom Eye Time Girl Three Hurt Knowledge Worry Wife Cry Listening Promise Husband Clean Wide Thee Cooks Meals Her Eyes Really Mean Sweetest I Promise Eyes Wide Open

Author:Alan Beck

“A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”

Eye Vision Knowledge Power Seeing

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.”

Mean Eye Knowledge Seeing Objects

Book:The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille

Source: The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille

“Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.”

Knows Men Has Beens Eye Belief Knowledge Passing Passings Feds Fables

Book:The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible,

Source: The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible,

“According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.”

Source: Jimmy Carter

“It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.”

Men Should Kind Eye Science Numbers Secret Knowledge Creation Duty Goodness Research Weight Mirrors Size Creator Norm Forbidden Examination Cautious Examining

Author:Johannes Kepler

“That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen.”

Men Has Beens Eye Earth Faces Science Known Knowledge Feet Moon Mountain Surface France Desert Squares Sixty Yards Measurement Acres Hemisphere Craters

Author:Camille Flammarion

“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.”

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

Source: Tempest-tost

“If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.”

Ifs Needs Heart Use Eye Understanding Knowledge Perception Intellectual Ears Insight Intuition Intellect Taoism Wise Man Once Said Pierce

Author:Zhuangzi