Quotes About Listening

Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

Wherever you are - know I really love you. Wherever you've been --know I've been there too. Whatever you're doing when you need a friend call me, I'll be there just to listen to you.

Love is listening, sometimes overcoming obstacles, as well as being victorious when faced with emulation.

Life is noisy but we should never stop listening to the melody of heart beat of those we love.

The most useful asset of a person is not a head full of knowledge but a heart full of love, with ears open to listen and hands willing to help...

You could always make me laugh, you listened to my pain, you turned my nights into sunshine when my days had often been rain.

To love me, is to know me. To know me, is to learn me. To learn me, is to listen to me. To listen to me, is to care for me. To care for me, says it all.

I speak loudest when I listen the most. My greatest gifts are in what I am willing to appreciatively receive from my students.