Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Interpretation
People tend to believe what they see rather than what they hear.
This quote by Herodotus suggests that visual evidence is more convincing to individuals than auditory information. It highlights the human tendency to rely on sight as a more trustworthy source of information, which can lead to skepticism towards spoken words or claims that lack visual support.
In practice
During a discussion about misinformation, this quote can emphasize the importance of credible visual data.
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
What you see is evidence of what you believe.
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