Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

But yet she listen'd--'tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.

He holds him with his glittering eye-- . . . . And listens like a three years' child.

Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn ,

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

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

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.