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Largest Collection of
Quotations About Listening
Featured Quotations
for the Month of July:
On Listening & Freedom
The
most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and
be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen
to them. — Ralph Nichols
Free speech carries with it some freedom
to listen. — Warren Burger
What this country needs is more free speech
worth listening to. — Hansell B. Duckett
The only valid censorship of ideas is
the right of people not to listen. — Tommy Smothers
While the right to talk may be the beginning
of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that
right important. — Walter Lippmann
And, if we care to listen, we can always
hear them. Men are not innocent as beasts and never can be.
Man can improve himself but never will himself be perfect,
Only the free have disposition to be truthful, Only the truthful
have the interest to be just, Only the just possess the will
power to be free. — W.H. Auden
The truth which makes men free is for
the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. — James
Bishop
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your
ears. — Julius Caesar
The grace of listening is lost if the
listener's attention is demanded, not as a favour, but as
a right. — Pliny the Younger
A politician's willingness to listen to
good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks
he is doing. — Pat Caddell
I'll defend to the death your right to
say that, but I never said I'd listen to it! — Tom Galloway
The right to be heard does not automatically
include the right to be taken seriously. — Hubert Humphrey
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