Ultimately no one can hear in things — books included — more than he already knows. If you have no access to something from experience, you will have no ear for it.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

To hear, one must be silent.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

In space no one can hear you scream; and in a black hole, no one can see you disappear.

Pay no attention to harsh words uttered by others.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?