A Quote by Epictetus

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

Epictetus

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Epictetus
Greek - Philosopher
50 - 138

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Josh Bowman

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

Epictetus

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

Hafez

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

Nick Vujicic

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Walter Raleigh

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

William Shakespeare

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Benjamin Disraeli

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Thomas More

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

Terri Farley

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

Lauren Child

Dirty days hath September April June and November From January up to May The rain it raineth every day All the rest have thirty-one Without a blessed gleam of sun And if any of them had two-and-thirty They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty." "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

William Shakespeare

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

William Shakespeare

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.