Quotes about listening

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

We all be speaking different because we all are having different growing-up life, but we can all be understanding each other if we just take the time to listen well.

It may be hard to just listen without offering advice as people share their problems, but this is often the best support we can give.

Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own. Listening, standing witness, creates an openness to the world in which the boundaries between us can dissolve in a raindrop.

Experiments are not about discovery but about listening and translating the knowledge of other beings.

If you ask permission, you have to listen to the answer.

To be heard, you must speak the language of the one you want to listen.

Listening in wild places, we are audience to conversations in a language not our own.

A part of the art of ruling, I suppose, is to know when to shut your ears.

However, it is well known that most people don't listen. They use the time when someone else is speaking to think of what they're going to say next.

If you're only pointing to your own stuff online, you're doing it wrong. [...] If you want to get, you have to give. If you want to be noticed, you have to notice. Shut up and listen once in a while.