Of all the parts of a man's body
there is none more excellent than the pupil of the eye.
-Mencius
One of the most wonderful things in nature
is a glance of the eye;
it transcends speech;
it is the bodily symbol of identity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes like sentinel
occupy the highest place in the body.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
The curious questioning eye,
that plucks the heart of every mystery.
-Grenville Mellen
His blue eyes, lively and close-set,
revealed the gentleness of a man
who had read all of the books.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
-George MacDonald
There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue,
and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done.
-Edith Nesbit
Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past,
but memory provides no clue.
-Mason Cooley

The eye speaks with an eloquence
and truthfulness surpassing speech.
It is a window out of which
the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly.
It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface
the moods of feeling fitfully play,
like the sunlight and shadow.
-Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues,
with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary,
but is understood the world over.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth,
his eye is as clear as the heavens.
When he has baser ends, and speaks falsely,
the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's eyes are what one is,
one's mouth is what one becomes.
-John Galsworthy
It is better to trust the eyes
rather than the ears.
-Proverb
The eyes are more exact witnesses
than the ears.
-Heraclitus
The eyes believe themselves;
the ears believe other people.
-German Proverb
The eye is easily frightened.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were lovely, your eyes,
but you didn't know where to look.
-George Serefis
Eyes as bold as lions,
- roving, running, leaping,
here and there, far and near.
They speak all languages.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like you; your eyes are full of language.
-Anne Sexton
Eyes can speak
and eyes can understand.
-George Chapman
The eyes have one language everywhere.
-George Herbert
Your eyes have their silence.
-E. E. Cummings
The voice in your eyes
is deeper than all roses.
-E. E. Cummings
What is that you express in your eyes?
It seems to me more than all the words
I have read in my life.
-Walt Whitman
And eyes disclosed
what eyes alone could tell.
-Timothy Dwight
One eye sees,
the other feels.
-Paul Klee
The eyes are more expressive
of thought and feeling than anything else.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Send home my long strayed eyes to me,
Which too long have dwelt on thee.
-John Donne
The eyes are the windows of a woman's heart;
you may enter that a way!
-Eugene Sue
When a woman is talking to you,
listen to what she says with her eyes.
-Victor Hugo
She learned to say things with her eyes
that others waste time putting into words.
-Corey Ford
In her eyes a thought
Grew sweeter and sweeter,
deepening like the dawn,
A mystical forewarning.
-Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The light in her eyes was beyond description,
yet it did not instill improper thoughts:
it inspired a love tempered by awe,
purifying the hearts it inflamed.
-Umberto Eco
Her eyes are homes
of silent prayers.
-Alfred Tennyson
Her eye in silence
hath a speech which eye best understands.
-Robert Southwell
Black is the pearl in a woman's eye.
-George Chapman
Where is any author in the world
teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
-William Shakespeare
For brilliancy,
no gem compares with the eyes of a beautiful woman.
-Frances Irene Burge Smith Griswold
I see how thine eye
would emulate the diamond.
-William Shakespeare
There are whole veins of diamonds
in thine eyes.
-Philip James Bailey
The eye is the jewel of the body.
-Henry David Thoreau
The love-light in her eye.
-Hartley Coleridge
A compassionate glance
is the eyes' true ornament.
-Tiruvalluvar
Love is the opener
as well as the closer of eyes.
-George MacDonald
The eye sees what it has the means of seeing,
and its means of seeing are proportional
to the love and desire behind it.
-John Burroughs
The eye sees what the heart means.
-Judah Leib Lazerov
What the heart doesn't see, the eye will not see either.
-Russian Proverb
What the eye does not admire
the heart does not desire.
-Proverb
The eye must be easy,
before it can be pleased.
-William Shenstone
There is a road from the eye to the heart
that does not go through the intellect.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
As a man is, So he sees.
As the Eye is formed,
Such are its Powers.
-William Blake
The eye of the beholder
may govern what is seen.
-James McGregor Burns
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
-William R. Alger
You see everything
according to the quality in your eyes.
-Ashokananda
What is behind your eyes holds more power
than what is in front of them.
-Gary Zukav
The eyes are not responsible
when the mind does the seeing.
-Publilius Syrus
The eye sees
only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson
The eye that see all things else, sees not itself.
-Bulgarian Proverb
The eyes see everything but themselves.
-Yugoslavian Proverb
Each day, as I look,
I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
-Bernard Berenson
The eye cannot rise above the eyebrow.
-Palestinian Proverb
When the eye wakes up to see again,
it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
-Frederick Franck
No object is mysterious.
The mystery is in your eye.
-Elizabeth Bowen
The eye altering,
alters all.
-William Blake
The hues of the opal,
the light of the diamond,
are not seen if the eye is too near.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A stranger's eyes see clearest.
-Charles Reade
My own eyes are not enough for me;
I will see through those of others.
-C. S. Lewis
With our eyes open we share the same world,
but with our eyes closed, each of us enters his own world.
-Heraclitus
Every closed eye is not sleeping.
and every open eye is not seeing.
-Anonymous
I close my eyes,
the better to see.
-Paul Gaugin
I prefer to see
with closed eyes.
-Josef Albers
The mind's eye begins to see clearly
when the outer eyes grow dim.
-Plato
When the eyes of the flesh are shut,
the eyes of the spirit are open.
-Willa Cather
The Eye of the Master,
 will do more Work than his Hand.
-Benjamin Franklin
When most I wink,
then do my eyes see best.
-William Shakespeare
They say eyes clear with age.
-Philip Larkin
No eyes that have seen beauty
ever lose their sight.
-Jean Toomer
When a man is able to see
both from his own point of view and from that of another,
he has complete vision, and clear insight;
he so to speak sees with both eyes.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
So we shall come to look at the world
with new eyes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The clearer the eyes, the purer the world.
-William Douglas Horden
The eye is the window of the mind.
If the mind is pure and calm,
the eye also will be calm and steady.
-Sivananda
The source of all light
is in the eye.
-Alan Watts
If the eye were a living being,
sight would be its soul.
-Aristotle
The eyes are two windows
through which the soul looks out.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime.
-Angelus Silesius
The eyes are the mirror of the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb
All of our souls
are written in our eyes.
-Edmond Rostand
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
A person who can read the language of the eyes,
their appearance and their movement,
has the key to character.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The seer can see the actual condition of man's soul
through his eyes, his grade of  evolution, his attitude in life,
his outlook on life, and his condition both hidden and manifest.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Eyes so transparent
that through them the soul is seen.
-Theophile Gautier
A sparkling soul
flashes out through the eyes.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Soul-deep eyes of darkest night.
-Joaquin Miller
I will know him by his eyes.
-Taylor Caldwell
If you look into the eyes of the young, you see flame.
If you look into the eyes of the old, you see light.
-Victor Hugo
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
-Raoul Dufy
Whatever comes to the eye,
Leave it be.
-Layman P'ang
I know how the eye works,
what it's primary impetus and desire is:
to lay its gaze upon the beautiful,
and for beauty to wink back.
-Daniel Ladinsky
The discerning eye sees differences between things and things,
between one color and another, between men, between cultures.
Differences are gross and subtle, large and small.
But the Awakened Eye sees the undifferentiated unity of all beings.
-Sehdev Kuman
All this universe
is in this eye of mine.
-Seppo
A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye.
-Mahmud Shabistari
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
-John Milton
For double the vision my Eyes do see,
and a double vision is always with me.
-William Blake
I am the eye with which the Universe
Beholds itself and knows itself divine
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Verily, oneself is the Eye,
the endless Eye.
-Upanishads
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