“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous
“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
Don Soderquist (1934–2016)
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 124. <br class="br">On Leading Well
Anthony Fauci (1940) American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Quoted in 'You don't want to go to war with a president' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/anthony-fauci-trump-coronavirus-crisis-118961, 3 March 2020, Politico
Arthur M. Jolly (1969) American writer
Sarah, Act I, Scene 4
Past Curfew (2009)