Quotes about Listening
When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
— St. John Chrysostom
When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.
— E Stanley Jones
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
— George Whitefield
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
— St. Basil
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
— William Temple
We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Being submissive does not mean that we don't give honest feedback.
— Neil Anderson
You know what it's like when two people start a conversation. First one of them does all the talking, the other breaks in with That's just like me, I... and goes on himself until his partner finds a chance to say, That's just like me, I... The That's just like me, I... 's may look like a form of agreement, a way of carrying the other party's idea a step further, but that is an illusion...
— Milan Kundera
He understands that that impatience to speak is also an implacable uninterest in listening
— Milan Kundera
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
— Euripides
is it really true that we can't afford one attack helicopter's worth of seed corn to listen to the stars?
— Carl Sagan