Quotes About Listening

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Speech is the small change of silence.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Well, God is certainly getting an earful tonight.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

He who talks too much commits a sin.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears, and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sometimes night has a way of speaking to us, but we almost never listen.

Da je cutanje snaga, a govorenje slabost, vidi se i po tome sto starci i deca vole da pricaju.