Quotes About Listening

It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

I observe and remain silent.