Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
Page 138
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”
Book 1, Ch. 8.
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Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“There's less in this than meets the eye.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“There is less there than meets the eye.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to President Truman, in 1946. When Truman defended Attlee (‘He seems a modest sort of fellow’), Churchill replied ‘He’s got a lot to be modest about.’ As cited in The Origins of the Cold War in Europe (1994), Reynolds, Yale University Press, p. 93 ISBN 0300105622
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
More learned than the ears.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
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XAIPE (1950)
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes…”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Speech of October 1989, accepting a peace prize; quoted in The Independent, London (9 December 1989)
Context: There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them — isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Adelántase más la imaginación que la vista, y el engaño, que entra de ordinario por el oído, viene a salir por los ojos.
Maxim 282 (p. 159)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
