Quotes About Listening

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.