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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

“The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.”

Littles Eye Form Social Opinion Society Affair Little Things Herds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.”

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.”

Ifs Heart Eye Joy Courses Politics Society Fool Mad Dinner Titles Republic Preaching Accompany Dukes Criticise Upstart

Author:Stendhal

“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”

Eye Morning Society Optimism Optimistic Awake Optimist Good Morning Opening Your Eyes

Author:Carl Sandburg

“I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.”

People Needs Giving Trying Children Eye Political Speak Leader Society Influence Duty Future Victim I Realized Better Future Political Leaders Influencing People

Author:Nana Mouskouri

“All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality. Don't be a part of the crowd; don't be a wheel in the whole mechanism of a vast society. Be individual, on your own. Live life with your own eyes; listen to music with your own ears." But we are not doing anything with our own ears, with our own eyes, with our own minds; everything is being taught, and we are following it.”

World Mind Has Beens Whole Eye Individual One Thing Society Century Taught Masters Ears Individuality Crowds Following Live Life Wheels Mechanism Listening To Music

Author:Rajneesh

“Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.”

Life Feels Eye Past Spirit Society Building Reflection Mirrors Casts Architecture

Author:I. M. Pei

“Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.”

Mind Looks Bigs Eye Next Brain Generations Society Television Tvs These Days Next Generation Eyeballs

Author:Fred Allen

“Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface”

Eye Society Surface Grass Delighted Lawns Velvet Roughness

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.”

Seems Eye Politics Society Politician Glasses Thee

Author:William Shakespeare

“I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.”

World Believe Problem Eye Individual I Believe Existence Society Tension

Author:Lady Bird Johnson