“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
“Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.”
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“Those who drown out the good singing –
there's many more of them
than those who want to hear it.”
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Die daz rehte singen stoerent,
der ist ungelîche mêre
danne die ez gerne hoerent.
"Owê, hovelîchez singen", line 17; translation from Frederick Goldin German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor, 1973) p. 127.
Ingvar Kamprad (1926–2018) Entrepreneur
"The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/pdf/reports-downloads/the-testament-of-a-furniture-dealer.pdf (1976).
“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
N. K. Jemisin book The Obelisk Gate
Source: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 15 “Nassun, in rejection” (p. 270)
Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom
No es favor del Príncipe, sino pecho, el comunicarlo. Quiebran muchos el espejo porque les acuerda la fealdad. No puede ver al que le pudo ver.
Maxim 237 (p. 134)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102655 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: I do not believe, in spite of all this, that the people of this country have abandoned their faith in the qualities and characteristics which made them a great people. Not a bit of it. We are still the same people. All that has happened is that we have temporarily lost confidence in our own strength. We have lost sight of the banners. The trumpets have given an uncertain sound. It is our duty, our purpose, to raise those banners high, so that all can see them, to sound the trumpets clearly and boldly so that all can hear them. Then we shall not have to convert people to our principles. They will simply rally to those which truly are their own.
“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".