Quotes on Deaf

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.