Anyone know any good, famous quotes about listening?

Answer 1

“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation”
Chinese Proverbs quote


“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)


“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)


“A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.”

Kenneth A. Wells quotes

Answer 2

Just to add a couple of African proverbs:

One must talk little and listen much.


The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

Answer 3

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)

Answer 4

if god wanted you to talk more than listen he would have gave you one ear and two mouths

said my boss to the guy in the next office

Answer 5

Try these links:
http://www.listen.org/quotations/quotes.html
http://www.heartquotes.net/Listening.html
http://www.leadershipnow.com/listeningquotes.html
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Listening/index.html
http://quotes.zaadz.com/topics/listening

Answer 6

Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear.