Callous Quote by Harriet Martineau

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that…

— Marlee Matlin

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

— Harriet Martineau

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

— Thomas A. Edison

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for…

— Harriet Martineau

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

— Stephanie Beacham

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those…

— Helen Keller

“Life calls for the highest order of deafness; then we can be, so to speak, happy. It”

— William T. Vollmann

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some…

— Rachel Shenton

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

— Marlee Matlin

“Blindness is a handicap of mobility, deafness one of communication. Terrible as is loss of vision, it does not distance the blind from the…

— Henry Kisor

Sometimes it's better to be blind not to see what you want to. Sometimes it's better to be deaf for not to misjudge what…

— Evolution

“We are all born almost Deaf, Dumb and Blind; trial and error have, thus far, been our best teacher.”

— Balan Gothandaraman