Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Interpretation
People tend to believe what they see rather than what they hear.
This quote by Herodotus suggests that visual evidence is more convincing to individuals than auditory information. It highlights the human tendency to rely on sight as a more trustworthy source of information, which can lead to skepticism towards spoken words or claims that lack visual support.
In practice
During a discussion about misinformation, this quote can emphasize the importance of credible visual data.
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.
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