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

These "certain proofs" have been available for a long time; one has only to open one's eyes to see them.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

I don't agree with a lot of it myself—we Airedales have always been conservatively inclined; but I am bound to say that three years in the Army open one's eyes to a lot of things.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 by Various

It is not enough to open one's eyes on scenes; one must be able to be en rapport with them.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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