A Man Who Listens Quotes

#1. The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

Bob Newhart

#2. A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Agnes Repplier

#3. You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person. lady basildon.

Oscar Wilde

#4. The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

Karen Kingsbury

#5. A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. - Brendan Francis

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#6. A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

George Jean Nathan

#7. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Hesiod

#8. For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Wallace Stevens

#9. Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

Dick Gephardt

#10. You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...

Atiq Rahimi

#11. Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Sabeth listened when I told her about my experiences, but as one listens to an old man; without interrupting, politely, without believing, without getting excited.

Max Frisch

#13. It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Louis L'Amour

#15. Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#17. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person

Oscar Wilde

#18. That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

#19. Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

Honore De Balzac

#20. To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

Pierre Daninos

#21. I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Livy

#22. A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.

Larry Burkett