Hearers Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;…
— Mary Astell
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
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If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.
— Dale Carnegie
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the…
— Dale Carnegie
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Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling…
— Richard Baxter
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Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day.…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers…
— Socrates
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
— William Hazlitt
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The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
— Oscar Wilde
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly…
— William Hazlitt
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The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
— Max Luthi
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Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
— LeBron James
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Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
— Alexander Smith
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The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word'…
— Martin Luther
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Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible;…
— Oswald Chambers
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Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and…
— Frederic Chopin
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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would…
— Horace
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