Ears Quotes

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• The ear is the avenue to the heart.

  Voltaire

  Life, Heart, Avenues

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  For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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• We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

  Epictetus

  Kindness, Communication, Compassion

  "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" by Epictetus, translated by Hastings Crossley, Vol. II, Part 2, The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Icy, Reader

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

  Heraclitus

  Eye, People, Soul

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

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• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Animal, Democracy

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  Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

  Herodotus

  Trust, Music, Eye

  Herodotus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herodotus (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Motivational, Military, Rejection

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• Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

  Thomas Fuller

  Marriage, Wedding, Eye

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• We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

  Diogenes

  Inspirational, Two, Listening

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• Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

  Joan Didion

  Play, Piano, Grammar

  Joan Didion (1984). “Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations”

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• True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

  Erich Segal

  Love, Inspiring, Valentines Day

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• I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

  Cecil Beaton

  Blue, Circles, Criticism

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

  John Muir

  Song, Tree, Tragedy

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Heart, Speech, Lips

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• Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Education, Stupid, Hands

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Song, Children, People

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• The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Literature, Way, Purses

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• The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

  Mink Stole

  School, Pairs, Firsts

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• We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

  Ernest Holmes

  Voice, Forever, Eternal Love

  Ernest Holmes (1998). “The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Penguin

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• Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

  Joan Didion

  Music, Power, English Grammar

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 16, 2011

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