“there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.”
Source: The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“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.
“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)
“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?”
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”
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.”
Source: As quoted in https://twitter.com/emilioinsolera/status/725116275349950465(April 26, 2016)