1. A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while gets to know something. ~Wilson Mizner
2. A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. ~Kenneth A. Wells
3. Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it. ~Jack Nichols
4. It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
5. Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them. ~Roger G. Imhoff
6. Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. ~J. Isham
7. Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and by others. That which is hidden. ~Rachel Naomi Remen
8. Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. ~John Marshall
9. Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus
10. 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
11. No one ever listened themselves out of a job. ~Calvin Coolidge
12. One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. ~Rebecca Falls
13. Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline. ~John Erskine
14. So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
15. The first duty of love is to listen. ~Paul Tillich
16. The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ~Richard Moss
17. The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ~Germain G. Glien
18. There are enough compulsive talkers; have you met any compulsive listeners? ~Unknown
19. There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen. ~Unknown
20. To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened. ~Robert C. Murphy
21. When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. ~Abraham Lincoln
22. 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. ~Unknown
23. You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. ~M. Scott Peck