Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening … when you’d have preferred to talk.
– D.J. Kaufman
Just because I didn’t do what you told me, doesn’t mean I wasn’t listening to you!
— Hank Ketcham
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That’s merrier than the nightingale.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
– Wilson Mizner
I’ll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I’d listen to it!
— Tom Galloway
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
– Epictetus
Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
— Carl Rogers
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
– Richard Moss
No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.
– Edgar Watson Howe
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
– Donald Rumsfeld
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
– Epictetus
There’s a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.
— Michael P. Nichols
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
— Francois Rochefoucauld
We listened to what our customers wanted and acted on what they said. Good things happen when you pay attention.
— John F Smith
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
– Henry David Thoreau
And therefore ’tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.
– William Shakespeare
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
– Jack Nichols
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
– J. Isham
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
– Katharine Whitehorn