Listening

(248 votes)   Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. [Hamlet]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(189 votes)   Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William A. Ward
1921-,

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(187 votes)   Listening: A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird?

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(170 votes)   Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(156 votes)   No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(132 votes)   One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.

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(116 votes)   You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening.

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(115 votes)   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
1822-1896, French Writers

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(113 votes)   No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

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(113 votes)   When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut

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(112 votes)   Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Frank Tyger

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(111 votes)   Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

Frank Tyger

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(111 votes)   The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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

Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher

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(83 votes)   Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Robert Montgomery
1807-1855, American Author

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