Philosophy on listening

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

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.”

“We are all a sort of camelions, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.”

“No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into the secrets of the nether world, as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.”

“When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.”