A man who won't listen can't hear.

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

A lidé poslouchají, aby nemusili mluvit, nebo mluví, aby nemusili poslouchat;

A person`s listening ability is limited by his ability to listen to himself.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.

They listen to hear, not respond.

People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers...

I didn’t list listening as one of my skills, probably because I didn’t hear what the interviewer asked.

To hear, one must be silent.

"Are your conversations a competition in which “the first person to draw breath is declared the listener"? Not many people are good listeners. Research has found that "75 percent of oral communication is ignored, misunderstood, or quickly forgotten."

There is a huge difference between merely hearing and listening, Bolton notes. The word "listening" is derived from two Anglo Saxon words, <i>hlystan</i> ("hearing") and <i>hlosnian</i> ("waiting in suspense"). The act of listening therefore means more than just something physical, it is a <em>psychological</em> engagement with another person (p. 34).