Quotes About Listening

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.

Many can argue - not many converse.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

We need to listen to one another.

Understanding is a two-way street.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

Silence is often advantageous.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Listening can heal wounds.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

I've come to learn that the best time to debate family members is when they have good in their mouths.