If you were blind...can you still say...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?..and really believe it? O.o?

Question

Please state your point of view. thank you.

Answer 1

The Blind May Envision, Who Knows?

Answer 2

Personally, and not that it's ever happened like this before, but when you look into someone eyes, it's not that you're staring at their pupils and colored iris and what not, but their eyes are like a screen that displays their hearts emotions and desires. So even if I was blind, if I could somehow feel, hear, or just somehow know that a person is good, in saying that beauty is held in their eyes, I can be confident in doing so.

Of course, you have to be careful about that though. Sometimes an eye's expressions don't necessarily represent a person's usual nature, and can just be showing their present, not-pernament emotions

Answer 3

Definitely - the proverb doesn't have that much to do with physically seeing something. It means that something is beautiful to someone for the value they place on it. Therefore, if a person has the most wonderful personality then the beholder might recognize that and call them beautiful - doesnt have to physical. A blind person is more than capable of finding beauty in someone or something considering that beauty is not solely based on something physical.

Answer 4

Sure you could.

Eyes don't always have to refer to the physical "eyes". They can be a metaphor for intuition or ability to understand people or have sympathy. The phrase "eyes in the back of your head" literally doesn't mean that, but means you have good sense or a "sixth sense".

A blind person would know that even more than a person with normal eyesight. As appearance, in the long run, amounts to nothing. A person's personality is the real beauty.

Answer 5

Back in 2002 I went completely blind from an attack of acute optic neuritis. I was that way for about a month and a half. Finally, they figured out what was wrong and I got back about 70% of my vision.
I can say that yes, beauty is in they eyes of the beholder, and I really do believe it.

Answer 6

Eyes means persona.

Beauty is not only the view of something beautiful, but it is the smell, touch, taste and hearing of something beautiful.

You can feel the breeze in the hills of Germany or Netherlands and think, "that's beautiful."
You can taste the fine dining food from the New York hotspots and think, "that's beautiful."

Heck, you can hear the sound of orchestra, listen to it acutely from miles away and be soothed by the sound of beauty.

Eyes is the most common form to interperet with, thus it is used. You can interperet everything with every sense and be bewildered, and therefore it is still beauty.

Answer 7

I think the word "eye" isn't meant to be taken so literal. Beauty can be found in things other than visual. Music, a loved ones personality, laughter and love are just a few examples.

Answer 8

Yes, because it's simply a metaphor. Seeing isn't the only way to register beauty, and it's not only the eyes that act as conduits to the pleasure centres of our brains.

Answer 9

I think that beauty is not determined solely by what we see with our eyes, it can be found in the other senses as well, in what we taste, smell, hear and touch, and even beyond human perceptions.
For example, the sound of certain music may stir one from within, one cannot see the vibrations, yet feel them, to me, that can be beautiful.
So, my opinion is that being blind does not necessarily limit one from experiencing beauty.
Sometimes the other senses may embrace much more of the beauty that surrounds one, because of not being limited by sight...that's another thought.
It can be viewed from different perspectives, no pun intended. :-)

Answer 10

The proverb doesn't refer to physical beauty at all; it means the type of person one is inside. So, yes, people who have no physical vision can judge you by your good qualities or your bad ones. Think of some of the current stars; physically they're gorgeous outside, but they do terrible things to themselves and their families.