Listening Quotes
+1Big egos have little ears.
— Robert Schuller
+1Much silence makes a powerful noise.
- African proverb
+1Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps.
— Argentine Proverb
+1The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich
+1Listen. Don’t explain or justify.
- William G. Dyer
+1Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
- Native American
+1If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
— Turkish Proverb
+1No man ever listened himself out of a job.
— Calvin Coolidge
+1Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
- Marcel Achard
+1From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
- Italian Proverb
+1Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
- Isaiah Berlin
+1Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
— Frank Tyger
+1And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
- William Shakespeare
+1When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
— Ernest Hemingway
+1I guess I’ve spent my life listening to what wasn’t being said.
- Eli Khamarov
+1Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
- Dr Joyce Brothers
+1Listening looks easy, but it’s not simple. Every head is a world.
— Cuban Proverb
+1It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
— Dick Cavett
+1It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
- Democritus of Abdera
+1We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
- Diogenes
+1An actor’s a guy who if you ain’t talkin’ about him, ain’t listening.
— Marlon Brando
+1You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
- M. Scott Peck
+1The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
- Peter F. Drucker
+1There’s a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.
— Michael P. Nichols
+1The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.
- E. Brian
+1No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.
- Edgar Watson Howe
+1Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
- Donald Rumsfeld
+1We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
+1Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
+1Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
— Carl Rogers
+1Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That’s merrier than the nightingale.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
+1I’ll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I’d listen to it!
— Tom Galloway
+1We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.
— Max Pree
+1Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
— Chip Bell
+1The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
- Josh Billings
+1The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
- Stephen Levine
+1Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though…. That’s the problem.
- Benjamin Hoff
+1One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.
— Franklin P. Jones
+1I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway
+1Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
- Jack Nichols
