“Speak for the ear and write for the memory.”
Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1974), ch. 9
In fiction
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”
English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.”
“Listen with ears of tolerance!
See through the eyes of compassion!
Speak with the language of love.”
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“If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Don’t speak to me. I want to be with you.”
Voces (1943)
“If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
Whitmer's response when asked if he "had been mistaken and had simply been moved upon by some mental disturbance, or hallucination, which had deceived them into thinking he saw the Personage, the Angel, the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the sword of Laban." Interview with Joseph Smith III et al. (Richmond, Missouri, July 1884), originally published in The Saints' Herald (28 January 1936). Also quoted in Richard Lloyd Anderson, Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1981), p. 88.
