“Be not hasty to speak; nor slow to hear!”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
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ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BCRelated quotes
Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896–1993) Russian monk, theologian and writer
Source: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991), p. 79
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits
English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“4503. The eternal Talker neither hears nor learns.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.”
Pittacus of Mytilene Greek sage
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
“Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
No. 2.
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