Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena. — Edward Miner Gallaudet
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller
Deaf people can do anything, except hear. — Marlee Matlin
The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted. — Marion Ross
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. — Pete Townshend
My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout. — Jethro Tull
No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen. — Yiddish Proverbs
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippmann
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
The blind feast with the deaf. — Turkish Proverbs
To foolish words, deaf ears — Spanish Proverbs
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
Let foolish words fall on deaf ears. — Spanish Proverbs
Listen or the tongue will keep the deaf. — American Proverbs
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. — Terence McKenna
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind. — Yiddish Proverbs
Deafness Image Quotes
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Can't Hear Quotes
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality. — Eazy-E
You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will. — Nouman Ali Khan
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme. — Dorothy Parker
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. — J. K. Rowling
That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice. — Bill Klem
Nature is not mute, it is man that is deaf.
Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me. — Maria Callas
If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy's mind. But most people don't do that. — Chris Voss
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices — Virginia Woolf
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something. — Maya Angelou
Blind And Deaf Quotes
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! — Helen Keller
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. — African Proverbs
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan — Carlos Castaneda
Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant. — George A. Sheehan
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf. — Claude Monet
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. — Charles Spurgeon
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. — Marilyn French
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity. — Helen Keller
Deaf And Blind Quotes
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. — Carlos Castaneda
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. — Proverbs
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. — Carlos Castaneda
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person. — Theodore Zeldin
Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem? — Charles Stanley
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. — John Florio
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? — Bob Monkhouse
Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see — Unknown
Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear. — Charles Spurgeon
Being Deaf Quotes
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world. — Oliver Sacks
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own. — Harlan Lane
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. — C. S. Lewis
I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. — Evelyn Glennie
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. — Thomas Brooks
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. — Bhagat Singh
How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection. — Hsu Yun
Deaf Ears Quotes
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. — Albert Bandura
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. — Bob Riley
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. — Wilfred Burchett
Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create. — Peter Block
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society. — Haim Ginott
It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother.' — Robert Bellarmine
You'll always face problems. When you experience hard times, immerse your mind in God thoughts. Turn a deaf ear to doubters. Set your mind on a holy cause. Once you find your mountain, no giant will stop you, no age will disqualify you, and no problem will defeat you. — Max Lucado
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. — Jean De La Bruyere
Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for. — Andrea Gibson
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo
I Am Deaf Quotes
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have. — Shoshannah Stern
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. — Eduardo Galeano
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear. — Thomas A. Edison
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. — Voltaire
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others. — Thomas A. Edison
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost. — P. D. James
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. — Charles Dickens
Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way. — Grace Gealey
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write. — Lord Chesterfield
Deafening Quotes
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. — William Dean Howells
Social media has degenerated into a deafening cacophony of groups signaling and repeating their shared myths. — Naval Ravikant
In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one. — Ann Weems
Words have a knack of breeding more words, whereas laughter, a deafening, roaring laughter, has the knack of swallowing everything up. — R.K. Narayan
I’m not going to stop writing today because my neighbor is using his deafening chainsaw. — Paul Jarvis
The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. — Corazon Aquino
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror. — Mike Yaconelli
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants? — Plutarch
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Our silence is deafening and deadly. — James Brown
Hearing Loss Quotes
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. — Mark Antony
I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read. — Gayl Jones
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. — Tommy Smothers
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. — Paula McLain
Princes have big ears which hear far and near. — Elizabeth I
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. — Andrew Miller
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure. — George Kennedy
I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them. — Barbara Bush
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. — Pete Townshend
Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe
All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi. — Konrad Lorenz
Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus. — Alistair Begg
There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane. — Richard Wurmbrand
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward. — Rodney Mullen
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. — Geoffrey Willans
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor
It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man — Greek Proverbs
I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry. — J. K. Rowling
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