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Quotes About Listening

When a woman asks for your opinion, what they really want to hear is their opinion...but in a deeper voice.
~ Unknown
The best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~ Harry S Truman
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
~ Unknown
When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants - and I give it to him.
~ Josh Billings
Who needs advice most, usually likes it least.
~ Unknown
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
~ Josh Billings
He who takes advice is wiser than the one who gives it.
~ Unknown
The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.
~ Unknown
Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.
~ Unknown
It's a bad child who does not take advice.
~ African Proverb
Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
~ Proverb
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
~ Proverb
Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway.
~ Unknown
Never give advice unasked.
~ German proverb
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
~ Unknown
When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger.
~ Unknown
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
~ Ann Landers
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~ Harry S Truman
Prayer is more like listening than anything else...being quiet in God's presence, waiting on God until we know what to do.
~ David Roper
You just need that person who will let you talk and ramble, listen to you complain and look like an idiot but still love you all the same.
~ Unknown
DISTANCE is not a matter of one true love, what matters most is the TIME to talk and listen, share and laugh; that the frequency of the communication line MUST always be on.
~ Unknown
We can learn a lot from how other people see and react to us, but we have to be willing to listen, accept and understand what we learn.
~ Unknown
Communication is the key to a successful relationship, attentiveness, and consistency. Without it, there is no relationship.
~ Unknown
Many relationship problems are rooted in a communication break-down. These can be as simple as not really hearing what the other person is saying, because we get caught up in our own fixed perspectives.
~ Unknown