Quotes on Eye Opening

The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.