Quotes About Listening

The art of conversation lies in listening

However quietly the gods speak, you will hear them. Be patient. They will tell you everything you want to know. All you have to do is listen.

Es bedarf ernstlicher Aufmerksamkeit, unermüdlichen Fragens und Lernens, um das rechte Gebot zu vernehmen und so die unerschöpfliche Güte Gottes in allen seinen Geboten zu erkennen.

Es ist nicht nötig, daß wir in der Meditation darum bemüht sind, in Worten zu denken und zu beten. Das schweigende Denken und Beten, das nur aus dem Hören kommt, kann oftmals förderlicher sein.

Wer nicht lange und geduldig zuhören kann, der wird am Andern immer vorbeireden und es selbst schließlich gar nicht mehr merken.

Das rechte Wort kommt aus dem Schweigen, und das rechte Schweigen kommt aus dem Wort.

Pero ya es sabido que la elocuencia está en el oído de quien oye.

How pleasant it is', says the Roman poet, 'to listen to a storm from the safe shelter of the shore.

Most times, the foreman says, it ain't knowing what to say as much as it is just being there not knowing how to say it

Do dead people like music? I hope they listen to mine if they do, in their coffins, in the cold underworld, between the mind and the body in an insomniac wall of sleep.

for a soul that is burning with love cannot remain inactive. No doubt, she will remain at [10]Jesus' feet as did Mary Magdalene, and she will listen to His sweet and burning words. Appearing to do nothing, she will give much more than Martha who torments herself with many things

Il n'y a pas que les mots qui permettent d'entendre ce que l'autre n'arrive pas à formuler.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one puts into one's words does not carve out a direct path for itself, it is not irresistibly self-evident. A considerable time must elapse before a truth of the same order can take shape in them.

Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!

I never much like thus being told without possibility of reply what I am to think about people whom I know.

Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.

Often all the possessions we have, the work we do, the beliefs we hold, are manic attempts to fill this opening, but they never stay in place. They always slip, and we are left more vulnerable and exposed than before. A time comes when you know that you can no longer wallpaper this void. Until you really listen to the call of this void, you will remain an inner fugitive, driven from refuge to refuge, always on the run with no place to call home.

Only holiness will call people to listen now. And the work of holiness is not about perfection or niceness; it is about belonging, that sense of being in the Presence and through the quality of that belonging, the mild magnetic of implicating others in the Presence. This is not about forging a relationship with a distant God but about the realization that we are already within God.

Only thus can hope be bright that there might come a tomorrow when you, the descendants of the settlers of our lands, can say to the world, Look, we came and were welcomed, and then we wrought much despair; but we are also men of honour and integrity and we set to work in cooperation, we listened and we learned, we gave our support, and today we live in harmony with the first people of this land who now call us, brothers.