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

—Robert Frost

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

—Bill Pollard

It’s a mistake to think we listen only with our ears. It’s much more important to listen with the mind, the eyes, the body, and the heart. Unless you truly want to understand the other person, you’ll never be able to listen.

—Mark Herndon

I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.

—Nikki Giovanni

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

—Kenneth A. Wells

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

—Robert Louis Stevenson

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.

—Chinese proverb

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.

 —Germaine Glien

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

 —Albert Guinon

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the province of wisdom to listen.

 —Oliver Wendell Holmes

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

—Dorothy Sarnoff

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

—Mignon McLaughlin