Quotes About Listening To The Wisdom Of Others

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.

Anthony Liccione

#9. Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Leif Enger

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

Loreena McKennitt

#15. 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

#16. The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.

Euginia Herlihy

#20. They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.

Lee Goff

#21. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. 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

#23. I prithee gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace.

William Shakespeare

#24. Sometimes you have to be in solitude with yourself, listening to your own heartbeat and acknowledging the brilliance God created as you.

Valerie Winrow

#25. Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.

Dejan Stojanovic

#26. A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Richard Rohr

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Raheel Farooq

#30. Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening

Jimi Hendrix

#31. Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

Jean Vanier

#32. May you hear the voice of wisdom.
Listening, may you act with trust.

Charlene Costanzo

#33. Listening is a gift that generates the quality of life and it helps us to grow in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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