deafness QUOTES

1 " But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness "

― John Green , Paper Towns

2 " Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. "

― Milan Kundera , The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

3 " Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past! "

― Pierre-Jean de Béranger

4 " Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our attention, in numbness it may shake up our mind. If we don’t sense anything at all and take everything for granted, art can kick us in the ass, give a conscience and make us aware. (" When is Art?" ) "

5 " A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. "

― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

6 " When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic. "

7 " We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too. "

― Zhuangzi

8 " There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered. "

― Simon Blackburn , Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love

9 " I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear. "

10 " By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. "

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

12 " The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure. "

13 " I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave. "

14 " Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold. "