Be quiet now. This is a collection of proverbs and quotes about listening.
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Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
Listen carefully to others, but think before giving your own opinion.Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar WildeFacebook Algorithms have got us all screwed up, where we only listen and talk to people with the same views as us, and I think it's not helping us as a culture to grow.
Karamo BrowneFools speak while the wise listen
I like to talk to myself so I don't have to listen.
(unknown author)I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Larry KingI've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
Saoirse RonanIt is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.
It is from listening to old men that you learn wisdom.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi HendrixListen to the color of your dreams.
The BeatlesListen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!
Bram StokerSource: Dracula
This refers to the singing of wolves.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen CoveyMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith SitwellNo one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
To tell the truth is dangerous; to listen to it is boring.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath TagoreWhen a woman talks to you, smile but do not listen.
When snow falls, nature listens.
Antoinette van KleefWisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
Eckhart TolleYou don't need any brains to listen to music.
Luciano Pavarotti