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

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
~Epictetus

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

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

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

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.
~Andre Gide

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.
~Charles C. Finn

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

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

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
~Peter F. Drucker

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said.
~Author Unknown

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
~Robert Fulghum

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

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
~Tommy Smothers

I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.
~Eli Khamarov, America Explained!

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~James Baldwin

No one is listening until you fart.
~Author Unknown

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956