Hears Quotes

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

A person hears only what they understand.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

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

Your body hears everything your mind says.

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.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.