The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth. Too many people think with their mouth instead of listening in order to absorb new ideas and possibilities. They argue instead of asking questions.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

More and more I’ve come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

We have our own voices. We just need you to listen.

The art of conversation lies in listening

If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.

We teach them to speak and also to listen. Because when people only talk and don't listen, they end up thinking that what they say is the only thing that is worth anything. ... Speaking and listening to words is how we know who we are, where we come from, and where our steps are going. Also it's how we know about others, their steps, and their world. Speaking and listening to words is like listening to life.

Listening is more important than talking.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

In the current world we are very focused on having a voice, and having a voice is very important, but hearing the voices of others is even more important.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

We all be speaking different because we all are having different growing-up life, but we can all be understanding each other if we just take the time to listen well.