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Listening |
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Quotations
 | A good listener is usually thinking of something else. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 15 likes |
 | We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 8 likes |
 | And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | Woman like silent men, they think they are listening. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 8 likes |
 | Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 7 likes |
 | Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 7 likes |
| Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 6 likes |
 | The poet doesn't invent. He listens. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 5 likes |
 | A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. — Brendan Francis, 1923-1964, Irish poet & writer 4 likes |
 | Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | He who speaks sows. He who listens, gathers the crop. — Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer 4 likes |
 | The medicine of the future will be music and sound. — Edgar Cayce, 1877-1945, American mystic & prophet 4 likes |
 | He listens well who takes notes. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 4 likes |
 | Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | One must listen if one wishes to be listened to. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 3 likes |
| Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 3 likes |
| Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 3 likes |
 | The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 2 likes |
 | In one ear and out the other: this would still make the head a transit station. What I hear has to go out the same ear. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | No man ever listened himself out of a job. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 2 likes |
 | The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | Listen if you want to be heard. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
| Listen to the sound of waves within you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | The voice of conscience, the voice of reason, the voice of blood... Try to understand something within this choir. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 2 likes |
 | Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening. — Bill Clinton, 1946-, American President [1992-2000] 2 likes |
 | The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| When a woman is silent, listen carefully. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
| The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. |
 | It is not the voice that commands the story. It is the ear. |
 | Let me listen to me and not to them. |
 | If only we could know, boss, what the stones, the flowers, the rain say! They may shout, they may shout at us, and we may not listen. |
 | You want to talk to someone; first open your ears. |
| Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet? |
 | It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. |
 | Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. |
 | The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves. |
| Women like what they hear, men like what they see. |
| When you hear what a pretty woman says, it's that she's not really pretty. |
 | The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. |
 | All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. |
 | A fearful man is always hearing things. |
 | Tears are a form of communication – like speech – and require a listener. |
 | Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. |
 | Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. |
| If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested. |
| Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener |
 | There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | An appreciative listener is always stimulating. |
 | Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. |
Funny Quotes
 | Beethoven was so deaf that all his life he believed he was painting. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 2 likes |
 | One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. |
 | If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
 | Be fond of listening rather than of talking. Φιλήκοον είναι μάλλον ή πολύλαλον. — Cleobulus, 6th cent. BC, Ancient Greek Poet, one of the 7 sages 5 likes |
 | It is the mind that sees and hears; everything else is deaf and blind. Νους ορά και νους ακούει. Τάλλα κωφά και τυφλά. — Epicharmus of Kos, 530-440 BC, Ancient Greek poet 3 likes |
