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...

Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They’ve all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don’t know what they’re talking about.

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

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

A person hears only what they understand.

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything.

I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

When we observe or listen to other people, we often don’t see them clearly or really hear what they’re saying. We see and hear our projections and prejudices instead.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak

Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew

They listen to hear, not respond. While listening to other people speak, they focus on what is being said, not how they are going to respond. This is also known as the meta practice of “holding space.

Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all.