Ray Stevens Quotes

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

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

Beauty can never really understand itself.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.

I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.