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What are your thoughts about the following quote:

"In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
-- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) - Source: The Rambler, 1750-52

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"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness." -- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

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I agree with both statements.

I think a lot of people ask a question but they really do not want to hear the answer. When we do tell them they can not handle what we tell them. Are we supposed to lie in that case? When do you lie and when do you tell the truth. IT is getting to be very complicated in some cases.

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To speak without hearing will just be akin to just saying one's opinion. Dialogue is always essential to ferret out the truth. One must not just speak, he certainly must learn to listen. Only then can truth really shine and set free.

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"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." - Bertrand Russell, ICH

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I don't agree to the first saying on this list. I think that you need to learn to listen, not just hear. Hearing is registering a noise but true listening is hearing with the intent to be changed. The modern person isn't that keen on change so now you know why dialogue is so hard. It get's that message out there for someone who isn't really listening to it. Also I agree with having to learn to listen to truth before you can partake in it's sharing.

Now the last quote here is to true. Pulling from the second quote and Star Wars, Good is a point of view, what is lightness and darkness is a point of view, what is truth and falsehood is partially a point of view. Of course there's the real truth and the false truth that others believe in. Of course from the false point of view they think the exact opposite.

So, talking is important, discussion is important, hearing is important but it's all useless without listening.

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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
-- William Blake

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)