
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Source: Life of Pi
As quoted in Awakening Indians to India (2008), p. 82
Context: If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Source: Life of Pi
“there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Source: The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
“None is so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Psalm 58.
Commentaries
Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.
“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“3657. None so deaf, as he that will not hear.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)
“Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free.”
Sacred Songs, Sound the Loud Timbrel, st. 1.
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Unsourced in The Philosophy of Mark Twain: The Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Genius (2014) by David Graham
Disputed