Heard But Not Seen Quotes

#1. Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

Grace Slick

#2. Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#3. He'd seen that absent look from her dozens of times in London. She thought herself invisible, and was not. Not to him. This was the second time he'd mentioned marriage to her. The second time she heard nothing but his words.

Carolyn Jewel

#4. The really cool thing about festivals is that you're getting to play in front of a whole lot of people who have never heard of us before. That's exciting. At the same time, it's a little bit of a challenge to capture the attention of people who have already seen a lot of bands.

Josh Dun

#5. Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

William Shakespeare

#6. Heaven be praised, no one had heard her cry that ignominious cry, stop pain, stop! She had not obviously taken leave of her senses. No one had seen her step off her strip of board into the waters of annihilation.

Virginia Woolf

#7. When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#8. I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me.

Bram Stoker

#9. If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

Bill Cosby

#10. We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Ernest Shackleton

#11. I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started making the connection between the art and the person making it, and when I heard that he was going to work on the cover for 'Seven Forges,' that connection was not yet cemented.

James A. Moore

#12. He glanced over at me, a smile twisting his lips. "Hey, no advice, Ghost Girl. Guardians should be seen and not heard."
I flipped him off for the "Ghost Girl" comment but he didn't notice because Lissa was talking to him again.

Richelle Mead

#13. The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one huge muffs of horror.

Nancy Milford

#14. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.a

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#15. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Charles Kennedy

#17. I mean, that which appears to our senses is not the fundamental truth. Things that are seen and heard and done by the flesh are mere shadows of a deeper reality.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I think finding that happy medium is pretty much impossible. I have never seen or heard of a cheerful ghost talker.

Michael Kroft

#19. Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen. Design is the structural link between the customers and the product. Content must be brought to the surface. And when a design is completed, it should seem natural and obvious. It should look like it is always been this way. And it should last.

Roger Black

#20. But no statistic conveyed a true picture of Panama rain. It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated. The effect was much as though the heavens had opened and the air had turned instantly liquid.

David McCullough

#21. In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.

Angela Merkel

#22. I heard a lot of things I know ain't true and I seen a lot of things ain't supposed to be true but was, and I tell you something girl, I believe they is a Hell.

Samuel Snoek-Brown

#23. I heard you went to Ireland ... I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?
Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.

Diana Gabaldon

#24. But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#25. By being seldom seen, I could not stir,
But, like a comet, I was wondered at ...
He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded
seen, but with such eyes,
As, sick and blunted with community,
Afford no extraordinary gaze.

William Shakespeare

#26. If one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.

W.K. Marriott

#27. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are put down, those lies his keepers keep their power by.

Ralph Ellison

#28. I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.

Khaled Hosseini

#29. Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness."
"No."
"Ever heard the term?"
"Outside of a legal trial, no.

Gena Showalter

#30. The joy of the shepherds was not that they were the ones who had heard the angels and seen such a great thing, but that a new light was given to the world, that God had visited his people again.

Anonymous

#31. The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

#32. Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.

Susan Hill

#33. The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Soren Kierkegaard

#34. As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

Jonathan Demme

#35. Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

David Jeremiah

#36. I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

Robbie Williams

#37. All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and still convey so much.

Rachel Joyce

#38. My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

Rabindranath Tagore

#39. The smell of freedom. But perhaps it was true what his mother, the teacher, had said. That the human brain can reproduce detailed images of everything you have seen or heard, but not even the most basic smell. Smell. The images

Anonymous

#40. She paused when she got to Drizzt, studying his handsome features. "Who have we here?" she asked, not losing her calm monotone. "I had not heard of your arrival, but I am sure that many will desire an audience with you before you go! We have never seen one of your kind.

R.A. Salvatore

#41. But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they'd not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten.

Rona Simmons

#42. I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.

Al Jolson

#43. We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.

Robert M. Hensel

#44. Clary: Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some mental pictures of Jace?
Simon: I heard that and NO ... You've seen him naked?
Clary: Well not entirely but-
Simon: Enough

Cassandra Clare

#45. I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

Suge Knight

#46. And soon we were just rolling around on the ground, cursing and screeching and ripping out handfuls of hair.
Without super hearing, I wouldn't have heard Zeb whisper, "This is the coolest thing I have ever seen."
"Maybe they'll get muddy," Dick said. "Please, Lord, let them get muddy.

Molly Harper

#47. The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.

Ben Carson

#48. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

David James Duncan

#49. According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Charles Francis Richter

#50. Samantha, what have I told you?' demanded Mr. Green.

'That I should be seen, and not heard, until I turn eighteen. When I can say 'Good-bye, I'm returning my key' before moving out of home.' chanted Samantha.

R.A. Spratt

#51. What no eye has seen and no ear has heard ... is what God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9

Beth Moore

#52. Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#53. I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

Ryne Sandberg

#54. He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Virginia Woolf

#55. 4For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him. +

Anonymous

#56. If you want to be loved, LOVE. If you want to be understood, UNDERSTAND. If you want peace, MAKE PEACE. If you want light, LIGHT. If you want to be seen, SHINE. If you want to be heard, LISTEN.

Abhishek Kumar

#57. I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possiblility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery

Emily Saliers

#58. Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

Bellamy Young

#59. In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

Morris West

#60. There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.

Yelawolf

#61. He can come up with the most exotic things I've ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.

David Eddings

#62. We are all gripped in madness. I have never seen the like nor heard of such a thing - gods, what we have become ...

Steven Erikson

#63. I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!

Stephen Hopkins

#64. I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Sophocles

#65. From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#66. I get the impression that Mordecai misinterpreted Esther's message. It sounded to him like she was trying to hide her nationality and avoid the responsibility of presenting herself to the king. Had he seen and heard her in person, he probably would have judged her differently.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#67. And did with sighs their fate deplore,
Since I must shelter them no more;
And if before my joys were such,
In having heard, and seen too much,
My grief must be as great and high,
When all abandoned I shall be,
Doomed to a silent destiny.

Aphra Behn

#68. I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

Cass Elliot

#69. And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.

Amy Bloom

#70. There were never tears in Jamie's eyes though. He only cried in the way that couldn't be seen or heard. Inside.

Neha Yazmin

#71. I want something new. I want something I've never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.

Michael Soll

#72. For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.

Claire North

#73. The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Mabel Collins

#74. Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected ... a passion for distinction.

John Adams

#75. My mother used to say that girls should be seen and not heard. I say we should be seen and feared.

Kami Garcia

#76. I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory.

Ogwo David Emenike

#77. Ramakrishna says, "One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana." In

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#78. A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before - then there is creativity.

Osho

#79. Nobody ever saw anybody who had seen anybody who had heard of anybody that had ever seen anybody that had ever seen one of the original Hebrew manuscripts.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#80. No," he heard a voice on the wind say. "If I had told you, you wouldn't have seen the Pyramids. They're beautiful, aren't they?

Paulo Coelho

#81. I have spoken softly, gone my ways softly, all my days, as behoves one who has nothing to say, nowhere to go, and so nothing to gain by being seen or heard.

Samuel Beckett

#82. As the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They've heard every joke, they've seen every story line, they know where you're going before you even start to get there. And that's a hard audience to keep interested.

Betty White

#83. You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.

Omar Khayyam

#84. Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

Billy Corgan

#85. I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

Saoirse Ronan

#86. The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.

Mario Puzo