
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
Fragment vi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
Letter to Michael van der Peet (September 1979), quoted in "Mother Teresa Did Not Feel Christ's Presence for Last Half of Her Life, Letters Reveal", Fox News (24 August 2007) http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/08/24/mother-teresa-did-not-feel-christ-presence-for-last-half-her-life-letters/
1970s
Context: Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The tongue moves but does not speak.
The Amazing Mr. Lutterworth (1958)
“They speak to the ear. I want to speak to the memory.”