“There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.”

— Meg Cabot , book All American Girl

Source: All-American Girl

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Novelist 1967

Ivor Tiefenbrun (1946) Scottish businessman

Interview in Audio Perfectionist Journal http://www.auriclepublishing.com/page0/assets/Ivor%20%20Interview%20for%20web.pdf.
2006

“Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“…. there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary

“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120

“Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?

A: You can't hear an enzyme.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves.”

Khalil Gibran book Jesus, The Son of Man

A Philosopher: On Wonder And Beauty
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves.
His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.