Listening Quotes

“in a community, we learn to listen”

“Listen with your ears, not your mouth.”

“Blessed are they who listen when no one is left to speak.”

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“And this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.”

“what lovely, larger life becomes ours when we listen to one another”

“In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.”

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“Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.”

“The one who recites the Qur’an and the one who listens to it have an equal share in the reward.”

“He holds him with his glittering eye—
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And listens like a three years' child.”

“Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.”

“Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.”

“But yet she listen'd—'tis enough—
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,
And one refusal no rebuff.”

“听取所有人的意见，从每一只鹅身上摘下一根羽毛，但绝对不要跟随任何人。
• Listen to all, 'plucking a feather from every passing goose,' but follow no one absolutely.”

“The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants.”

“Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.”

“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is. Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion. No relationship can thrive in that way, and that is why there is so much conflict in relationships.”

“Considering how much the ears are cultivated with all the useless varieties of "lute, sackbut, and psaltery," it is wonderful their first great quality should be so neglected ; it shows how much common sense is overlooked in our present style of education. Now, considering that it is the first step to general popularity — (that general popularity, to be turned, like a patriot’s, to particular account) — considering that it is the great general principle of conciliation towards East Indian uncles and independent aunts, it shows how much real utility is forgotten, when the science of listening is not made a prominent branch of instruction. So many act on the mistaken principle, that mere hearing is listening — the eyes, believe me, listen even better than the ears — there ought to be a professor of listening. We recommend this to the attention of the London University, or the new King's College ; both professing to improve the system of education. Under the head of listening, is to be included the arts of opportune questionings and judicious negatives — those negatives which, like certain votes, become, after a time, affirmatives.”