Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Deaf. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Deaf Quotes And Sayings by 84 Authors including Michael Atiyah,Christopher Moore,Rose Fyleman,Bob Dylan,Harriet Martineau for you to enjoy and share.
Would you rather be deaf or blind? -- Michael Atiyah
I fink I gots deaf on me willie. -- Christopher Moore
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long. -- Rose Fyleman
Ring the bells for the blind and deaf. -- Bob Dylan
[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others. -- Harriet Martineau
A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience. -- Paul Simon
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? What is there around us that we cannot - -- Frank Herbert
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. -- Richard Masur
The diagnosis of high-frequency deafness cast a faint shadow over his happiness, but their mutual enjoyment of sex was not much affected, the sounds which accompany it being mostly non-verbal and low frequency in wavelength. Inevitably, -- David Lodge
We are all born almost Deaf, Dumb and Blind; trial and error have, thus far, been our best teacher. -- Balan Gothandaraman
Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few. -- Tom Holt
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. -- Helen Keller
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. -- William Shakespeare
Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. -- Terri Farley
There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us. -- Sean Berdy
Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows. -- Helen Keller
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people. -- Stephanie Beacham
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons. -- Andrew Solomon
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. -- Victor Hugo
I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort. -- Evelyn Waugh
Most people took no more notice of the profoundly deaf than they did of their own shadows. They -- Joe Hill
The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing. -- Charles Manson
Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people. -- Zhuangzi
You can not hear what you do not understand. -- W. Edwards Deming
I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave. -- Stephanie Beacham
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. -- I. King Jordan
No one can see me, no one knows me;
All men are deaf, no ears disclose me -- Taras Shevchenko
Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people. -- Helen Keller
I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Sometimes your own tongue can make you deaf and dumb. -- Anirban Bose
Some people are color-blind; some are intellectually-deaf. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes -- Paul Hoffman
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute. -- Stephen King
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is. -- M. Stanton Evans
Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. -- Luis Bunuel
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. -- Marlee Matlin
A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle. -- John Stott
There were few things Deaf people found more amusing than hearing people who knew just enough sign to be dangerous. -- Darynda Jones
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. -- Richard Masur
Sir, can you hear me?" Another cry. But this time, a voice I don't detest.
"Sire, please, can you hear me-"
"I've been shot, Delalieu," I manage to say. I open my eyes. Look into his watery ones. "I haven't gone deaf. -- Tahereh Mafi
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. -- Pete Townshend
We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too. -- Zhuangzi
My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain. -- Jeanne Calment
I'm crossing my fingers that we grow deaf together. I'm pleased just writing you. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. -- Jose Saramago
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see? -- John Heywood
You should know that I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication. -- Vint Cerf
You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together ... You are my heroes. -- Tom Harkin
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness -- John Green
The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf ... -- Edward Miner Gallaudet
Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. -- Akiane Kramarik
Listening is an important key to HEARING. -- Joyce Meyer
My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout. -- Jethro Tull
A mute mentor & blind novice
I grabbed your hand; made me wise -- Shahzaib Ansari
A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along. -- Leonardo Da Vinci
Selective deafness was one of the many time-honored survival mechanisms of motherhood. -- Nikki Sex
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. -- Loretta Young
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. -- Pete Townshend
Eyes are a deaf man's ears. Ears are a blind man's eyes. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hearing without listening is like seeing without a vision -- Thabiso Monkoe
The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb. -- Karl Kraus
Just as Jean-Baptiste can hear without ears, his father can become deaf at will. -- Patricia Cornwell
To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind. -- Alec Douglas-Home
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that. -- Evelyn Glennie
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? -- Frank Herbert
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community. -- Richard Masur
...beer makes people deaf... -- Maggie Stiefvater
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? -- Vera Nazarian
Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life. -- Marlee Matlin
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture. -- John Scalzi
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break. -- Richard Masur
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound. -- James Earl Jones
DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS. -- Terry Pratchett
I am blind
but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' ... I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again. -- Peter Cook
The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted. -- Marion Ross
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people. -- Michael Dukakis
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others. -- Ford Frick
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn. -- Marlee Matlin
At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access. -- I. King Jordan
She holds out her hands in entreaty. Join me, she whispers, but she's moving backward, getting fainter ... disappearing before my eyes ... vanishing ... she's gone. No! I shout. No! But I have no voice. I have nothing. I'm mute. Mute ... again. -- E.l. James
What is your name, Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist. -- Jose Saramago
The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors. -- Sean Berdy
Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything. -- David Hewson
And the blind man said to the deaf man, Do you see what I hear? -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
It's ironic that it was not until I lost my hearing that I finally found my voice. Sign language saved my soul. -- Rosie Malezer
Cries for help are frequently inaudible. -- Tom Robbins
He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end ... -- Susan Hale
Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them. -- Marion Ross
deaf ear is evidence of a closed mind. -- John C. Maxwell
Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp. -- Lord Chesterfield
I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks. -- Scott Lynch
Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once! -- Stephen Colbert
Butler: Do you think I look deaf?
William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything. -- Richmal Crompton
O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute -- Cecilia Meireles
Learn to listen with your fingers. -- Helen B. Taussig
Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. -- Thomas Beecham
O have a care of natures that are mute! -- George Meredith
If you can't hear a language, then you are at a severe disadvantage when you're trying to learn it. -- Ron Gullekson
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. -- Jane Austen
