Ears Quote by Eric Hoffer

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

— William Hazlitt

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by…

— Michel De Montaigne

“In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness, confidence, and…

— George Sand

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of…

— Henry Fielding

“We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence;…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales…

— Francis Bacon

“We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by…

— Michel de Montaigne

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”

— Charles M. Blow

“Genuine controversy, fair cut and thrust before a common audience, has become in our special epoch very rare. For the sincere controversialist is above…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that…

— Daniel Hecht

There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when…

— Lawrence Schiller