Sacred/listening

Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or listening:

“Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,—means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,—one as much as another.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears—by listening to them.”
—Dean Rusk (b. 1909)