Quote by Socrates

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-t

Summary

This quote emphasizes the importance of being good listeners and observers. With two ears and two eyes, nature has provided us with the ability to collect information through listening and observing. The single tongue symbolizes the need to be mindful of how much we speak and to prioritize understanding. It implies that we should be attentive listeners and keen observers, taking in as much as we can before expressing our thoughts or opinions. The quote encourages us to enhance our understanding of the world by valuing observation and listening over mere speaking.

Topics

Listening

By Socrates

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suici

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.

Truth

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole mys

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Love Man

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person wh

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.

David R. Gergen

Presidency

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you c

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Future

The biological task of science is to provide the fully devel

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

Science

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not lov

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

Love

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

George Bernard Shaw

Alone Love Loss Leaving

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, Go

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Faith

I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love

I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.

Strength

My music is about the journey, about love and the human expe

My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

Experience Music Love

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

Protest

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Family