A person hears only what they understand.

Closed-minded people are more likely to make statements than ask questions.

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

When a question has no correct answer; there is only one honest response.

don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers

Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk.

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

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.

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

"Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested...."