Robert Louis Stevenson
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Native American Indian Proverb
If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
Robert Brault
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
The first duty of Love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?
Author Unknow
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is his is disagreeing with. Kenneth A. Wells
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
No man would listen to you talk if he didn’t know it was his turn next.
Edgar Watson Howe
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katherine Whitehorn
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson
Big egos have little ears.
Robert Schuller
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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