A Quote by Muhammad Ali

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali
American - Boxer
January 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

Karl Rove

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

Sheri S. Tepper

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Simone Weil

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

Ben Jonson

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Plautus

If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

Saint Francis de Sales

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Harold Rosenberg

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

St. Catherine of Siena

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The successful writer listens to himself.

Frank Herbert

Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

Victor Hugo

I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.

Lukas Forchhammer

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