Definition of Listening

Listening Quotations

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James A. Baldwin

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Spurgeon

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti