“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

“God gave man two ears and one tongue so we could listen twice as much as we talk.”

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”

“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”

“We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.”

“How do you speak that all men may hear you in their own tongues? It is an art known and practiced by teachers of old.”

“Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite”

“Crowds of silent voices whisper in our ears, transforming the nature of what we see and hear. Some are those of childhood authorities and heroes; others come from family and peers. The strangest emerge from beyond the grave.”

“The heart hath its mystery, and who may reveal it,
Or who ever read in the depths of their own? —
How much, we never may speak of, yet feel it,
But, even in feeling it, know it unknown!”