“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)
“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633Related quotes
“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)
“There are none so blind as those who see angels…None so deaf as those who hear gods.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 288)
“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
“None is so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Psalm 58.
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Variant: None so blind as those that will not see.
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
Robert A. Heinlein book Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 132
“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”
Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) Indian revolutionary
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.
“The deaf eye sees what is invisible to the hearing eye.”
Emilio Insolera (1979) Actor and film producer
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)