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The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.

Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.

Well done is better than well said. -Unknown.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau.

The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird? -Edward H. Richards.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.

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. A. Milne.

When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.