Hearing Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

32 Hearing Quotes
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“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
John Keats Quotes
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.”
Lord Chesterfield Quotes
“Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil”
Proverb Quotes
“Hear Everything and judge for yourself”
George Eliot Quotes
“And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Mark (ch. IV, v. 9)
“He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 37)
“One eare it heard, at the other out it went.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: The Canterbury Tales (bk. IV, l. 435)
“Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.”
Abraham Coles Quotes
Source: Man, the Microcosm; and the Cosmos (p. 51)
“None so deaf as those who will not hear.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes
Source: Commentaries (Psalm LVIII)
“Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“Went in at the one eare and out at the other.”
John Heywood Quotes
Source: Proverbs (pt. II, ch. IX)
“Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?”
John Keats Quotes
Source: Addressed to Haydon (sonnet X)
“Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.”
George MacDonald Quotes
Source: Song--At the Back of the North Wind (ch. XXXIII)
“I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Comus (l. 560)
“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 120)
“Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i)
“Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
“Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at III, ii)
“They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes
Source: Dingley and Brent
“He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.”
William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Source: Virginians (ch. XXXII)
“Strike, but hear me.”
Themistocles Quotes
Source: Rollin's Ancient History (bk. VI, ch. II, sec. VIII)
“It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.”
Charles Horton Cooley Quotes