I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‚What kind of music do you make?‘, and you say, ‚Pop music.‘ You may as well have ‚I’m not cool‘ stamped on your forehead.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Silence is the mother of truth.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.