top of page
"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Eye quotes

"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."

"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."

"I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them."

"When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater."
Explore more quotes by Loren Eiseley

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."
bottom of page