Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.
Shakti Gawain

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
Richard Bach

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Bono

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Dave Barry

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner