„He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.“

— Stephen King
„I speak and speak, … but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. … It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.“
— Marco Polo
„He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.“
— Confucius
„The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.“
— Ambrose Bierce