Khalil Gibran
View AuthorSome listen with their ears, some with their stomach, some with their wallet, and some don't listen at all.
André Gide
View AuthorMany times the words we should have said do not come to our mind until it is already too late.
André Gide
View AuthorEverything has already been said, but since no one listens, it is necessary to start again.
William Hazlitt
View AuthorThe art of conversation is the art of listening and being listened to.
Martin Heidegger
View AuthorPhilosophy implies a free mobility in thought, it is a creative act that dissolves ideologies.
Horace
View AuthorThe spoken word, once it flies, does not return.
Horace
View AuthorA spoken word cannot be taken back.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorHow! No criticism at all? No. Genius is an entity like nature and, like nature, it wants to be accepted purely and simply. A mountain is taken or left. There are people who criticize the Himalayas stone by stone! Everything in genius has its reason for being. It is because it is. Its name is the reverse of its light. Its fire is a consequence of its flame. Its precipice is the condition of its height.
Victor Hugo
View AuthorTo be discussed is to be perceived.
James Gibbons Huneker
View AuthorThe critic is a man who expects miracles.
Aldous Huxley
View AuthorThe words are there to explain the meaning of things, so that the one who listens understands that meaning.
Aldous Huxley
View AuthorWords can be like X-rays if used properly: they pass through everything. You read them and they pierce you. This is one of the things I try to teach my students: to write in a penetrating manner.