“there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Michael Punke (1964) American jurist and lawyer
Source: The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
“There are none so blind as those who see angels…None so deaf as those who hear gods.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 288)
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“None is so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Psalm 58.
Commentaries
Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.
“Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“3657. None so deaf, as he that will not hear.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There is none so blind as they that won't see.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) Arab theologian
ibn Hazm's style of ending a work, in Salim al-Hassani, Ibn Hazm’s Philosophy and Thoughts on Science https://muslimheritage.com/ibn-hazm-philosophy-and-science/#_ftnref23
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Unsourced in The Philosophy of Mark Twain: The Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Genius (2014) by David Graham
Disputed
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
"Democracy: Its Presumptions and Realities" (1932); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 99 - 100.
Extra-judicial writings
Context: When I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from the clouds, whom none have seen and none are ready to name, I lapse into a dream, as it were. I see children playing on the grass; their voices are shrill and discordant as children's are; they are restive and quarrelsome; they cannot agree to any common plan; their play annoys them; it goes poorly. And one says, let us make Jack the master; Jack knows all about it; Jack will tell us what each is to do and we shall all agree. But Jack is like all the rest; Helen is discontented with her part and Henry with his, and soon they fall again into their old state. No, the children must learn to play by themselves; there is no Jack the master. And in the end slowly and with infinite disappointment they do learn a little; they learn to forbear, to reckon with another, accept a little where they wanted much, to live and let live, to yield when they must yield; perhaps, we may hope, not to take all they can. But the condition is that they shall be willing at least to listen to one another, to get the habit of pooling their wishes. Somehow or other they must do this, if the play is to go on; maybe it will not, but there is no Jack, in or out of the box, who can come to straighten the game.
Andy Kessler (1958) American writer
Part VII, The Margin Surplus, Wealth How?, p. 261.
Running Money (2004) First Edition