Quotations about Listening
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; it is also what it takes, on occasion, to sit down and listen. ~William Arthur Ward, Thoughts of a Christian Optimist, 1968
The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Where Eager Talks form the Major Faction,
A Listener finds himself the Chief Attraction.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Human Phenomena," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
One of the safest and most successful talents I know of is to be a good listener. ~Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818–1885) [spelling standardized
An orator's power is largely drawn from his hearers; be ye therefore "eloquent listeners," if ye would be entertained. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
If you look like someone who's willing to listen, you hear a lot of explanations owed to other people. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Free speech is a blessing to men, without it no race can advance; but talkers should pause now and then, and give other fellows a chance. ~Walt Mason (1862–1939), "The Poor Listener"
Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness and laryngitis. ~William Arthur Ward (1921–1994)
One way to meet new people is to listen more carefully to the people you see every day. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If you will think it over you will find that the most popular man of your acquaintance is a good listener. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1908, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Apelles post tabulam: (Lat. prov.) "Apelles behind the picture," a secret listener. ~A Manual of Quotations, from the Ancient, Modern, and Oriental Languages, including Law Phrases, Maxims, Proverbs, and Family Mottoes, forming a new and considerably enlarged edition of Macdonnel's Dictionary of Quotations, by E.H. Michelsen, 1856
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966, ©Thomas Paine McLaughlin
If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Not all my day can I spend in listening, for I, too, must evolve, ere the night comes on. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Prayer, 1904