Listening Quotes - Page 2

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed their eyes as Sister Philomena whispered the words and I thought this must be the nearest humans get to whatever God is, when they hold hands and listen.

We talk, even if no one listens, because we never know when someone will.

To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

When the voices of doubt start whispering, turn-up the volume of faith and listen to your heart.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever