the questions a person asked often taught the hearer more about that person than they might realise.
— Christopher G. Nuttall
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
— Frederick Douglass
Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.
— Theodor Adorno
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[L]anguage is not the sign of the idea actually existing in the mind of the speaker - but of that which (s)he desires to convey to the hearer.
— Philip Beauchamp
If I build your hopes I would never shatter your dreams for always we will be a team!!
— Marcia Shury
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
— Quentin Crisp
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. — George Whitefield
Truly there is a Living God, and He is the hearer and answerer of prayer. — Hudson Taylor
Don't be a "HEARER", be a "DOER. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule - a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last. — John Steinbeck
A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus — John Piper
The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him. — John Ruskin
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. — John Steinbeck
To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough ... — Ralph Vaughan Williams
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The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another. — Jurgen Habermas
Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God. — Charles Spurgeon
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. — Joseph Addison
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. — John Dewey
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them. — Arthur Frederick Saunders
Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place. — Orson Scott Card
