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

topic: Eye, Effort, Littles, Human Eyes

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

topic: Eye, Light, Color, Homo Sapiens, Human Eyes

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

- Charles Darwin

source: 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

topic: Natural Selection, Creation And Evolution, Proof God Exists, Proof Of God, Proof That God Exists

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

topic: Photography, Powerful, Eye, Camera And Photography, Human Eyes

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

source: 1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

topic: God, Eye, Sea, Human Eyes

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

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

topic: Natural Selection, Darwinism, Creationist, These Eyes, Origin Of Species

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

- Martin Buber

topic: Eye, Animal, Pet, Wildlife Animals, Cat Dog

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

topic: Graduation, Future, Eye, Future Science, Visions Of The Future

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

- Ruth Bernhard

topic: Photography, Real, Eye, Human Eyes

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

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

topic: Love, Loyalty, Fire, Mutual Benefit, Time Love

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

- Louis Aragon

topic: Eye, Use, Tomorrow, Human Eyes

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

topic: Dog, Eye, Thinking, Man And Dog, Inspirational Dog

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

topic: Beauty, Inspiration, Eye, Human Eyes

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

topic: Eye, Cameras, Doe, Human Eyes

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

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Eye, Sorrow, Tears, Eyelids, Human Eyes

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

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

topic: Eye, Religion, Bishops, Incredulity, Human Eyes

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

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

topic: Stars, Real, Heart, Human Eyes

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

topic: War, Eye, Vampire, Dealer, Human Eyes

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

topic: Music, Dream, Eye, Human Eyes

The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God's many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him.

- Ronald Rolheiser

topic: God, Christian, Jesus, Many Faces, Christ Child

Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

topic: Nature, Flower, Eye, Human Eyes

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive... Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

- Roger Ballen

topic: Art, Eye, Black And White, Defining Myself, Minimalist

The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout history, multifaceted emerald continues to sparkle and fascinate.  Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.  This powerful and universally-appealing tone translates easily to both fashion and home interiors.

- Leatrice Eiseman

topic: Fashion, Powerful, Home, Rejuvenation, Emeralds

You must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom, and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which, to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in confusion and loss.

- Hannah Whitall Smith

source: St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1326, Moody Publishers

topic: God, Eye, Loss, Human Eyes

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Eye, Science, Power, Heavenly Bodies, Human Eyes

The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes. Rather, at that moment the initiated disciples of the Lord 'passed', as we have been taught, 'from flesh to spirit' by the transformation of their senses, which the Spirit wrought in them, and so they saw that ineffable light, when and as much as the Holy Spirit's power granted them to do so.

- Gregory Palamas

source: "The homilies".

topic: Christian, Eye, Light, Short Time, Transfiguration

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

- Michael Kenna

topic: Photography, Eye, Impossible, Human Eyes

Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.

- Willi Munzenberg

topic: Photography, Eye, Brain, Human Eyes

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

- Robert Smithson

source: Robert Smithson (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, Univ of California Press

topic: Sloppy, Human Eyes

If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Hero, Eye, Men, Human Eyes

All human eyes have longing in them.

- Ernesto Cardenal

source: Ernesto Cardenal (1981). “Love”, Crossroad Publishing Company

topic: Eye, Longing, Humans, Human Eyes

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

- Mike Svob

topic: Strong, Drama, Eye, Human Eyes

Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell; Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

- William Cowper

topic: Daughter, Flower, Eye, Human Eyes

So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Love, Meaningful, Jesus, Deep And Meaningful, Make Happy

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

- John Muir

topic: Eye, Wind, Mind, Spoken Language, Written Language

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

- Thomas de Quincey

source: Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop (1998). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

topic: Children, Hate, Grief, Human Eyes

And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where the mysteries stand secure, untouched by human eyes. I want to go to these places, the quiet, timeless, ageless places, and sit, letting silence and solitude be my teachers.

- Evan Tanner

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Teacher, Eye, Men, Quiet Time, Ageless

The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

- Zainab Salbi

topic: War, Eye, Space, Human Eyes

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

- William Wilberforce

topic: Eye, Immediacy, Magnification, Human Eyes

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Eye, Sight, Magic, Human Eyes

He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. “You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.” Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary in his extraordinary face. “No. No mark.” He grinned around his fork. “I do suppose they’ve looked everywhere?” “I’m sure Will’s tried,” said Jessamine in a bored tone.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Eye, Bored, Ordinary, Magnus Bane, Bane

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them...

- Alice Walker

topic: Hurt, Eye, Reality, Human Eyes

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

topic: Faith, Women, Distance, Kwanzaa, Radar

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

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

topic: Religious, Cousin, Fall, Sombreros, Waiting For Something

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

topic: Beach, Stars, Real, Amphibians, Sandstone

The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.140, Faber & Faber

topic: Running, Eye, Black And White, Snowman, Moths

And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

topic: Fall, Eye, Saws, Human Eyes

when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

- Martin Amis

topic: Rain, Eye, Climbing, Impurity, Paisley

Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.

- Laini Taylor

topic: Eye, Army, Fighting, Human Eyes