It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

—Margaret Cho

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

—Katharine Whitehorn

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

—Frank Tyger

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

—Dorothy Sarnoff