„Listen to learned men, but do so only with one ear!… Let the other be always ready to receive the sweet accents of the voice of your heavenly Friend!“
Écoute les savants, mais ne les écoute que d'une oreille!... Que l'autre soit toujours prête à recevoir les doux accents de la voix de ton ami céleste!
Ampère's Meditation, September 1805
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Écoute les savants, mais ne les écoute que d'une oreille!… Que l'autre soit toujours prête à recevoir les doux accents de la voix de ton ami céleste!
Ампер, Андре-Мари
французский физик, математик и естествоиспытатель 1775 - 1836Похожие цитаты
„Do you not know that close to your doors a great multitude of men and women, flesh of your flesh, live lives that are one agony from birth to death? Listen! their dwellings are so near that if you hush your laughter you will hear their grievous voices, the piteous crying of the little ones that suckle poverty, the hoarse curses of men sodden in misery turned half-way back to brutes, the chaffering of an army of women selling themselves for bread. With what have you stopped your ears that you do not hear these doleful sounds?“
— Edward Bellamy American author and socialist 1850 - 1898
Источник: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25439 (1888), Ch. 28.
„Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught,“
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
In debate http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1952/nov/04/debate-on-the-address in the House of Commons, 4 Nov 1952
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Вариант: Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Контексте: Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught, but I shall not attempt to foreshadow the proposals which will be brought before the House tomorrow. Today it will be sufficient and appropriate to deal with the obvious difficulties and confusion of the situation as we found it on taking office.
„To listen, to learn, your mind has to be still. Have you ever observed that you can have only one thought in your mind at a time?“
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
„He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.“
— Andre Norton American writer of science fiction and fantasy 1912 - 2005
Источник: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 3, “Sirrush-Lau” (p. 84)
„We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian poet and writer 1875 - 1926
Источник: Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
„Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.“
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Antony, Act III, scene ii.
Julius Caesar (1599)
„It’s about learning to listen, much like in music. You can train your ears to history. You can train your ears to the earth. You can train your ears to the wind. It’s important to listen and then to study the world, like astronomy or geology or the names of birds. A lot of poets can be semihistorians. Poetry is very mathematical. There’s a lot in the theoretical parts that is similar. Quantum physicists remind me of mystics. They are aware of what happens in timelessness, though they speak of it through theories and equations.“
— Joy Harjo American writer 1951
On her advice to poets in “The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate on How Poetry Can Counter Hate” https://time.com/5658443/joy-harjo-poet-interview/ in Time Magazine (2019 Aug 22)
„Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.“
— Kenneth E. Boulding British-American economist 1910 - 1993
Источник: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 42
„Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?“
— Dashiell Hammett, книга The Maltese Falcon
Источник: The Maltese Falcon
„If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.“
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
No. 101 (26 June 1711), this has sometimes been quoted as "It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age".
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Контексте: If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.
„Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
Источник: My Story
„Do you wish to roam farther and farther?
See the good that lies so near.
Just learn how to capture your luck,
for your luck is always there.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Erinnerung
Willst du immer weiterschweifen?
Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.
Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,
denn das Glück ist immer da.
Variant translation:
Do you wish to roam farther and farther?
See! The Good lies so near.
Only learn to seize good fortune,
For good fortune's always here.
Erinnerung
„This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them“
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
Источник: 1950s, My Philosophical Development (1959), p. 110
Контексте: Some modern philosophers have gone so far as to say that words should never be confronted with facts but should live in a pure, autonomous world where they are compared only with other words. When you say, ‘the cat is a carnivorous animal,’ you do not mean that actual cats eat actual meat, but only that in zoology books the cat is classified among carnivora. These authors tell us that the attempt to confront language with fact is ‘metaphysics’ and is on this ground to be condemned. This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
„When you learn to listen to your gutt, your find all the answers.“
— Keshia Chante Canadian actor and musician 1988
Official Website (2009)
„We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes…“
— Oscar Wilde, книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on so that they are ready to do evil.“
— Posidonius ancient greek philosopher -135 - -51 до н.э.
As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXXVII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
„Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.“
— Isocrates ancient greek rhetorician -436 - -338 до н.э.
Verse 18.
To Demonicus
Контексте: If you love knowledge, you will be a master of knowledge. What you have come to know, preserve by exercise; what you have not learned, seek to add to your knowledge; for it is as reprehensible to hear a profitable saying and not grasp it as to be offered a good gift by one's friends and not accept it. Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.