“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book 6, chapter 24.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
“You've got one mouth and two ears. There's a reason.”
Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)
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“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 23.
Variant translation: The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
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“I haven't got any papers. I have two ears, and I've heard many things.”
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“We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 40.
“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
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“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra