Hearing Loss Quotes
55 quotes by 41 authors
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
— Italo Calvino
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The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
— Jean Cocteau
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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity…
— George Kennedy
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Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting…
— Marion Ross
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Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
— Marion Ross
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I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of…
— Helen Keller
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
— Helen Keller
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly,…
— Helen Keller
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The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.
— Ronald Reagan
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.
— Andrew Miller
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Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.
— Mark Antony
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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…
— Abraham Coles
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
— Ken Kesey
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Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble…
— William Shakespeare
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
— William Shakespeare
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And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well…
— William Shakespeare
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Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Who Wrote These Hearing Loss Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 55 Hearing Loss Quotes, led by these top contributors: