Quotes About Listening

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.