“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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American politician, 30th president of the United States (i… 1872–1933

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great — I'm taking myself as a character — for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

Quoted by Chan Norris, "Orson Welles on Latin America". PM, September 13, 1942, page 17.

“1752. Great and Good are seldom the same Man.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“God's great work in man takes place in the Interior.”

Francisco Palau (1811–1872) Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest

Letter to Juana Gratia (1857)
Context: God's great work in man takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and is shown outside is the work and effect of the order inside.

“He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.”

John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician

Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.

“Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men