open one's eyes

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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

It is no breach of the law of love to open one's eyes to facts, and so to save oneself from taking paper money for gold, except at a heavy discount.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

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

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