Hearer Quotes

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.