“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr55
American writer 1973Related quotes
“We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.”
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“You've got one mouth and two ears. There's a reason.”
Ron Kaufman (1956) American author and consultant
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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
“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.
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“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
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“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Variously attributed to Lincoln, Elbert Hubbard, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin and Socrates
Misattributed
Variant: It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
“Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer