Human Eyes Quotes

• The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Eye, Effort, Littles

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• The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.

  Ellen Meloy

  Eye, Color, Light

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• To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Theory Of Evolution, Creation Science

  Charles Darwin (1861). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.167

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• I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Powerful, Eye

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• Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

  Herman Melville

  God, Eye, Sea

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

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• To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

  Charles Darwin

  Distance, Believe, Eye

  "The Collapse of Evolution". Book by Scott Huse, p. 73, 1996.

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• An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

  Martin Buber

  Dog, Eye, Animal

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.73, A&C Black

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• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Graduation, Future, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 119 (1842)

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• What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Real, Eye

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

  Louis Aragon

  Eye, Use, Tomorrow

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• I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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• Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

  Ann Landers

  Loyalty, Love Is, Mutual Benefit

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Beauty, Inspiration, Eye

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• Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

  Douglas Sirk

  Eye, Cameras, Doe

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• The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Sorrow, Tears

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Religion, Bishops

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Stars, Real, Heart

  Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.

  Kate Beckinsale

  War, Eye, Vampire

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• Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Dream, Eye

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• We spoke of how to say good-bye,” Jem said. “When Jonathan bid farewell to David, he said, ‘Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn, both of us, saying the Lord be between me and thee, forever.’ They did not see each other again, but they did not forget. So it will be with us. When I am Brother Zachariah, when I no longer see the world with my human eyes, I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Heart

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• Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, Women, Distance

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.12, CLC Publications

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• A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

  Richard Brautigan

  Religious, Cousin, Fall

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.39, Library of America

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• When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

  Rick Yancey

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.248, Penguin UK

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