Michael Deaver Quotes

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

The moment when images replaced words in American politics.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

It is so important – the setting in which the President is presented to the world.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

You heard me. You ain't blind.

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.