“Be not hasty to speak; nor slow to hear!”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
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Pythagoras 121
ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BCRelated quotes
Source: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991), p. 79
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”
English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“4503. The eternal Talker neither hears nor learns.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.”
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
“Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.”
No. 2.
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