Hears Quotes

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

A person hears only what they understand.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

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.