“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.”

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Dog bark at what they don’t understand.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

The paramedic whispered in my ear ‘God will never leave you or forsake you.’

He who has ears for hearing, let him listen

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They’re not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

You live your life between your ears.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.