Deaf

Famous quotes containing the word deaf:

    His ear is so sensitively attuned to the bugle note of history that he is often deaf to the more raucous clamour of contemporary life.
    Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)

    Carry hate
    In front of you and harmony behind.
    Be deaf to music and to beauty blind.
    Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late
    For having first to civilize a space
    Wherein to play your violin with grace.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Who is so deaf or so blind as he
    That wilfully will neither hear nor see?
    16th century English proverb, collected in J. Heywood, Dialogue of Proverbs (1546)