Careful Words

hearing (n.)

hearing (adj.)

  The hearing ear and the seeing eye.

Old Testament: Proverbs xx. 12.

  The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): English Traits. Race.

  I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee.

Old Testament: Job xlii. 5.