Hearer Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame… — Blaise Pascal
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. — John Dewey
Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself,… — Thucydides
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. — Joseph Addison
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. — Quentin Crisp
No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful,… — Charles Spurgeon
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas… — Emanuel Lasker
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce… — Blaise Pascal
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,… — Bertrand Russell
The Bible isn't meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be… — Rick Warren
Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearerâ€™s mind… — Desiderius Erasmus
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. — John Ruskin
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. — Frederick Douglass
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. — George Whitefield
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a ruleâ€”a great and interesting story is about everyone… — John Steinbeck
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. — John Steinbeck

Who Wrote These Hearer Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 26 Hearer Quotes as follows: