open one's eyes

Example Sentences

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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"

From Time Magazine Archive

I think the fewer books we take the better; they take up room,—and the wise way always seemed to me to read at home, and open one’s eyes and see abroad.

From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Whiting, Lilian

Ah, my friends, might one not learn it at once, if one would but open one’s eyes and look at things as they are? 

From Sermons for the Times by Kingsley, Charles

Travel and talk to foreigners open one's eyes to aggressive possibilities; history and its warnings become conceivable.

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

This view is inconceivably foolish, for it is necessary only to open one's eyes to see what a pitiful use is made of the power which man already possesses to create wealth.

From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Hertzka, Theodor