Quotes on hearing

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue

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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

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She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

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There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

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Verily, those who disbelieve, it is the same to them whether you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him ) warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe.Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearings, (i.e. they are closed from accepting Allah's Guidance), and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be a great torment.(The Qur'an. Surah Al -Baqarah:6,7)

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Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.

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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

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The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

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