“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”

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American writer 1903–1978

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“In essence, your eyes don't show you what you see they show you what you believe.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 38

“Close your eyes and you will see.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

Marc Acito (1966) American novelist, humorist, screenwriter

Source: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

“Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye.”

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter

Variant translation: Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.<br>Quoted in The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany (1996) by Fredrick Berwick and Jürgn Klein, and in "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News (3 March 2005) http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/154/42/ <br class="br">undated <br class="br">Context: Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you have seen in the darkness so that it may react upon others from the outside inwards. A picture must not be invented but felt. Observe the form exactly, both the smallest and the large and do not separate the small from the large, but rather the trivial from the important.

“My personality is not defined by what you can see with your eyes.”

E.M.S (1995) Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer

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