I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
– Ernest Hemingway
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
– James Baldwin
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
– Fran Lebowitz
The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.
– E. Brian
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
– Tommy Smothers
He holds him with his glittering eye. And listens like a three years’ child.
– Samuel Taylor
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
– Peter F. Drucker
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
– Diogenes
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
– M. Scott Peck
An actor’s a guy who if you ain’t talkin’ about him, ain’t listening.
— Marlon Brando
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
— Phillip Stanhope
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
– Democritus of Abdera
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
— Dick Cavett
Listening looks easy, but it’s not simple. Every head is a world.
— Cuban Proverb
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
– Dr Joyce Brothers
I guess I’ve spent my life listening to what wasn’t being said.
– Eli Khamarov
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
– Robert Greenleaf
And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
– William Shakespeare
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
— Ernest Hemingway
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
— Woodrow Wilson