He understands

He understands
He understands badly who listens badly.
  

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Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.
The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.
Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise
Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.
The desire for change is a sign of safety.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.