Deaf Quotes - Page 11

• If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

  Ivan Stang

  Education, Reality, House

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• If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

  Helen Keller

  Interesting, Five Senses, Use

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• If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Dumb, Belief, Blind

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot,

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• I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

  P. D. James

  Regret, Writing, Men

  P. D. James (2008). “The Children of Men”, p.124, Faber & Faber

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• If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

  Bhagat Singh

  Sound, Loud, Ifs

  "Awakening Indians to India" by Chinmaya Yuva Kendra, (p. 82), 2008.

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• Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

  I. King Jordan

  Technology, People, Focus

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• Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Eye, Fire

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• Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

  Khalil Gibran

  Regret, Light, Darkness

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Past, Blind, Mute

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• Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda

  Tired, Mindfulness, Deaf And Blind

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• A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

  John Stott

  Church, Principles

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• You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Silence, Intimacy

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• You'll always face problems. When you experience hard times, immerse your mind in God thoughts. Turn a deaf ear to doubters. Set your mind on a holy cause. Once you find your mountain, no giant will stop you, no age will disqualify you, and no problem will defeat you.

  Max Lucado

  Hard Times, Mind, Age

  Source: ww2.christianpost.com

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• My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring!

  Henry Cho

  Selfish, Wife, Stubborn

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• Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

  S. D Gordon

  Doubt, Blind, Impossibility

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• I prefer to sleep with deaf girls. Those crazy chicks never have a safe word.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girl, Crazy, Sleep

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2010

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• My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

  Billy Eckstine

  Views, Appreciate, Work Out

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• I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands.

  Demetri Martin

  Hands, Rude, Wonder

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• You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to think that this earth that we live in only has 6000 years of existence. It just doesn't.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Years, Dumb

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• Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind.

  Epicharmus of Kos

  Sight, Mind, Deaf And Blind

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• Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard of hearing community as well.

  Vinton Cerf

  Communication, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

  Slim Moon

  Fall, Artist, Ears

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Block

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• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

  Emma Goldman

  Race, Years, Agony

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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