top of page
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

Standard 
 Customized
"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

Exlpore more Eye quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."

Eye,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye."

Eye,
Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine."

Explore more quotes by Ruth Benedict

Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women."
Quote_1.png
Ruth Benedict
"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."
bottom of page