#beholder

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ↗

— David Hume

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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. ↗

— Martha Beck

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I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Stephen King

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