“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”
Source: Black Blood
“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”
Source: Black Blood
“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
Quoted by Chan Norris, "Orson Welles on Latin America". PM, September 13, 1942, page 17.
“1752. Great and Good are seldom the same Man.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“God's great work in man takes place in the Interior.”
Letter to Juana Gratia (1857)
Context: God's great work in man takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and is shown outside is the work and effect of the order inside.
Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
“A handsome man guards his image a while;
a good man will one day take on beauty.”
Fragment 50 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Exhortation to Learning