“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
“I am ripe. Ripe enough to hear your Truth. But shout it for one ear remains deaf.”
“There’s much protest, but it falls on deaf ears.”
“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”
“The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.”
“As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.”