54 Inspiring Quotes about
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
(Jimi Hendrix)
Hearing and actively trying to understand what someone says
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
(Marge Piercy)
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
(Stephen R. Covey)
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
(Peter Drucker)
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have rather talked.
(Mark Twain)
Meant may not be said may not be heard may not be understood.
(Scott Anderson)
Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
(Letitia Baldrige)
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
(Dalai Lama)
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
(Bryant H. McGill)
A listening ear could also be a running mouth.
(Anonymous)
Speak, and stagnate; listen, and learn.
(Scott Anderson)
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
(Alfred Brendel)
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen. (Charles Dickens) When people talk, listen completely.
(Ernest Hemingway)
You never get people’s fuller attention than when you’re listening to them.
(William Feather)
Don’t just hear, listen.
(Roy T. Bennett)
The first duty of love is to listen.
(Paul Tillich)
You’re short on ears and long on mouth.
(John Wayne)
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
(Ed Cunninham)
Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
(Gary Hopkins)
You can’t fake listening. It shows.
(Raquel Welch)
I never miss a good chance to shut up.
(James Patterson)
The art of conversation lies in listening.
(Malcolm Forbes)
Listen with the will to learn.
(Unarine Ramaru)
Listen; it makes you intriguing.
(Anonymous)
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.
(Germain G. Glidden)
Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.
(Graham Speechley)
When we listen, we hear someone into existence.
(Laurie Buchanan)
Listening is about being present, not just being quiet.
(Krista Tippett)
The quieter you become, the more you hear.
(Anonymous)
You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen – not just money but respect.
(Harvey Mackay)
Listen thrice. Think twice. Speak once.
(Anonymous)
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
(Alan Alda)
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
(M. Scott Peck)
I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.
(Ernest Hemingway)
Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
(James Altucher)
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
(Bernard Baruch)
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
(Phillip Stanhope)
You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkably bad opinions.
(John Bryan)
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
(Dick Cavett)
Just because I didn’t do what you told me, doesn’t mean I wasn’t listening to you!
(Hank Ketcham)
Big egos have little ears.
(Robert Schuller)
It is the province of knowledge to speak. And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
(Calvin Coolidge)
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
(Stephen R. Covey)
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
(Wilson Mizner)
Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps.
(Anonymous)
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
(Frank Tyger)
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
(Jared Sparks)
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
(Robert McCloskey)
…questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
(James Nathan Miller)
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
(Marge Piercy)
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
(Stephen R. Covey)
Ears shut, mind shut.
(Scott Anderson)
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
(Jimi Hendrix)
Listen like every sentence matters; talk like every word counts.
(Geoffrey Tumlin)
