Quotes on listening

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
Finn, Charles C.

 listening  philisophical  

  

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Larson, Doug

 listening  wisdom  

  

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Proverb, Native American Indian

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Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
Hoff, Benjamin

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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Achard, Marcel

 listening  women  

  

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Churchill, Winston

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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
Berlin, Isaiah

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Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
Unknown, Author

 home  listening  

  

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Gide, André

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