Emily Dickinson Quotes

Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

I like to open people's eyes.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.