Remember: when you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something.     

                                                                           —Amish School Saying

The only way to entertain most people is to listen to them.

—Elbert Hubbard

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.  —Robert Louis Stevenson

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.                —Robert Frost

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

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.        —Lillian Hellman

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.                               

                                                                                    —Pope John XXIII

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.              —Mignon McLaughlin

You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don’t hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it’s never the same.          —Marjorie Kellogg

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.          —Roy E. Moody

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

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

—Isaiah Berlin

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

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

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.

—Marcel Achard