A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
Donella Meadows

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt

A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
John Cheever

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
Joseph Butler

God hears a mother's prayer.
Victoria Gotti

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
Thomas Brooks

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Sophocles

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
David Herbert Lawrence

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
Alexis Korner

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.
Gabriela Sabatini

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.
Robert Fripp

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
Alan Parsons