Ears Quotes

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain

Thoughts, Away, Heels

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Love, Men, Help

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud

Betrayal, May, Him

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Adele

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus

Silence, Same, Quiet

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
Jimi Hendrix

Forget, Everything, Eyes

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

Two, Speak, Listen

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal

Love, True, Hear

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

Men, Die, Young

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken

Keep, Both, Sit

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Men, Woman

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

God, Experience, Brain

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Heart, Eyes, Cannot

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes

Two, Talk, Less

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

Eyes, Write, Writer

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
H. P. Lovecraft

Dark, After, Shall

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace

Keep, Sure, Hear

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve

Confidence, Integrity, Others

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus

Eyes, Poor, Souls

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Herodotus

Trust, Men, Eyes

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Horace

Through, Learn, Makes

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

Hurt, School, Through

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding

Accusation, Guilt, Quick

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
Phil McGraw

Home, Children, Parent

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
John Kenneth Galbraith

American, Off, Boredom

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving

Men, Society, Together

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb

Long, Book, Read

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer

Men, Power, Evil

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus

Eyes, Exact, Witnesses

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Beautiful, Person, Him

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