Famous Hearing Quotes

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
-- Stanley Baldwin

And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
-- Bible

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
-- William Shakespeare

Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
-- William Shakespeare

He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;-- In short, there never was a better hearer.
-- Lord Byron

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
-- John Keats

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.
-- John Milton

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

Little pitchers have wide eares.
-- George Herbert

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
-- Henry David Thoreau

None so deaf as those who will not hear.
-- Matthew Henry

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.
-- John Hope Franklin

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
-- Arnold Glasow

Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
-- William Shakespeare

Strike, but hear me.
-- Themistocles

Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.
-- William Shakespeare

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.
-- Saudi Arabian Proverb