„Shut your eyes and see.“

„The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.“

—  Terry Pratchett, buch Wintersmith

„To shut your eyes is to travel.“

—  Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886

„I shut my eyes in order to see.“

—  Paul Gauguin French Post-Impressionist artist 1848 - 1903

„Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart“

—  Zooey Deschanel American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter 1980

„you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut“

—  Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

„Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.“

—  Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

„In your eyes,
The light, the heat.
In your eyes,
I am complete.
In your eyes,
I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
In your eyes,
The resolution of all the fruitless searches.In your eyes,
I see the light and the heat.
In your eyes,
Oh, I want to be that complete.
I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes.“

—  Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950

„If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?“

—  Katherine Paterson, buch Jacob Have I Loved

„Your eyes see what your brain expects to see…“

—  Gianni Sarcone Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual perception and cognitive psychology 1962

„To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.“

—  Gilbert Ryle, buch The Concept of Mind

„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.“

—  Ward Moore, buch Bring the Jubilee

„Those with eyes to see will see your light and be enchanted by it.“

—  Paulo Coelho, buch Manuscript Found in Accra

„It's shameful to spot a lie and not to name it,
shameful to name it and then to shut your eyes,
shameful to call a funeral a wedding
and play the fool at funerals besides.“

—  Andrey Voznesensky Soviet poet 1933 - 2010

„Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, buch Eat, Pray, Love

„The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes“

—  Alyson Nöel writer 1965

„To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.“

—  Anthony Doerr, buch All the Light We Cannot See

„My eyes make pictures when they are shut.“

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834

„But I see through your eyes“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„Close your eyes and you will see.“

—  Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824