“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
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American writer 1973Related quotes
“We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.”
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 40.
“You've got one mouth and two ears. There's a reason.”
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“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.”
Book 6, chapter 24.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)
“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”
“If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”
Variously attributed to Lincoln, Elbert Hubbard, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin and Socrates
Misattributed
Variant: It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
“Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”