Quotes About Listening

To implement this path to make other people feel good about themselves I plan to ask more questions of people and talk about myself less.

That "feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres."

Even now, I tell myself, there is a language / to which I might speak and which / would rightly hear me...

The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos.

The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I'd long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as many different stories as I could and averaging them all out.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

I'm always relieved when someone delivers a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

E quibus, hi vacuas implent sermonibus aures:

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

we need to accept and welcome the fact that the church has not been given a single "authorized biography" of Jesus but four canonical Gospels, related and yet different, as complementary witnesses to the truth about Jesus. To do justice to such a revelation, it is important that we listen to each witness individually as well as to all together.

Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

It's truly rare to find a man who enjoys the sound of his own voice as much as you do.

To Mother no was simply a yes that hadn't had a chance to hear her out.

Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.

How happy are those who believe that they can pray and be helped, or even, without being helped, be listened to.

Listen to the wind. It can blow dreadfully here. In the winter it blows so that it would drive you mad. It blows day after day, and one becomes so restless. What do you think of my page? Your - Mr. Nolan? He seems very devoted. I think he would let me kill him slowly.