Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
~ Abigail Van Buren

It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
~ Dick Cavett

One who cares is one who listens.
~ J. Richard Clarke

No one every listened themselves out of a job.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Listen. Don't explain or justify.
~ William G. Dyer

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

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
~ John Erskine

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
~ Rebecca Falls

Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!
~ James Dillet Freeman

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
~ Germain G. Glien

A person hears only what they understand.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
~ Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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

When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
~ Victor Hugo

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them.
~ Roger G. Imhoff

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld