Top 57 Listening Wisdom Quotes
#1. To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
Mark Nepo
#2. There are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!
Margaret Deland
#3. Pain is a teacher, as I have told you before. Most people fear it. We do not. We would never stop a child from touching a burning piece of wood. We would warn, but never prevent. Wisdom comes through listening to those with more experience. Only fools blunder through unnecessary pain.
Jeff Wheeler
#4. Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.
Loreena McKennitt
#5. We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.
Milton Glaser
#6. The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#7. There are big advantages of living for God, therefore try to spend every minute you have walking with Him, listening to Him and learning of His wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
#8. If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#9. There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#10. You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing
Julia Heywood
#12. Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do for another human being, is to listen to them, just ... LISTEN.
Jaeda DeWalt
#13. You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
C.S. Lewis
#14. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
#15. Sing as you like, don't worry about who is listening to you.
Debasish Mridha
#16. It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.
Peter St. John
#17. There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in
this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom. We've all had those aha moments. In yoga it's called prajna - a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.
Brad Willis
#18. 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.
Isocrates
#19. Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. 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.
Ashish Patel
#21. A listening heart can take away stress. A loving and friendly hug can heal and bless.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
Dejan Stojanovic
#23. Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.
Mark Nepo
#25. I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.
Julia Cameron
#26. Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.
Isak Dinesen
#27. Listening to one's self as well as to others is a sacred act of healing. There is a higher octave of listening that hears the wisdom within the words.
Cheryl Hamada
#28. 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
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.
Euginia Herlihy
#30. There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
Daniel Dae Kim
#31. I'm actually listening to Turner's advice. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but sometimes, if you dig through his words, there are little nuggets of pure idiot wisdom, the sweetest kind there is.
C.M. Stunich
#32. I prithee gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace.
William Shakespeare
#33. There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others
Phil Heath
#34. Sometimes you have to be in solitude with yourself, listening to your own heartbeat and acknowledging the brilliance God created as you.
Valerie Winrow
#35. Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.
Dejan Stojanovic
#36. A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
Richard Rohr
#37. The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?
Elliott Erwitt
#38. Today, we have more information than ever, but less wisdom; more talk, but less listening; more things in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example), and less in the intellectual storeroom (that would be knowledge).
Cal Thomas
#39. They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.
Lee Goff
#40. Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening
Jimi Hendrix
#41. Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.
Jean Vanier
#42. May you hear the voice of wisdom.
Listening, may you act with trust.
Charlene Costanzo
#43. Listening is a gift that generates the quality of life and it helps us to grow in life.
Euginia Herlihy
#44. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide.
Raphael Zernoff
#46. The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#47. Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
Cory Trepanier
#49. Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions.
Krista Tippett
#50. Steadily, we are listening more to the intelligence of our hearts - and acting on that wisdom. And that's what spirituality is - an expression of Love.
Danielle LaPorte
#51. Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
Donella Meadows
#52. A person's voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.
Frank Beddor
#53. If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so it can hold evermore wonders. -Andrew Harvey
Rob Brezsny
#54. Let your wisdom guide you
On your own personal journey
By listening to your heart
Your soul will be alight
And let you be
All that you are intended to be
Karen Hackel
#55. A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.
Anthony Liccione
#56. Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.
Leif Enger
#57. I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom.
Tonya Sheridan
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
