Quotes About Listening

A lot of people won't listen to old men. A lot of people are stupid.

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

She holds up a finger. I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

Why was there so much silence between men?

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

We are the dead. We are the keepers of the stories. We hold the history of blood and promises. We are speaking. Are you listening? Will you hear?

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I've envisioned that woman's silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

Never run if you can walk, never walk if you can stand, never stand if you can sit, and never sit if you can lie." "Never talk if you can listen

Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb

there is a vast difference between talking about God and listening to a God who talks to you.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.