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One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

— Thor Heyerdahl

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Most people believe that their listening skills are where they need to be, even though they aren't. A study at Wright State University surveyed more than 8,000 people from different verticals, and almost all rated themselves as listening as well as or better than their co-workers. We know intuitively that many of them are wrong.

— Travis Bradberry

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

— Benjamin Watson

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

— Ben Okri

People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

— Mike Nichols

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

— Margaret Heffernan

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

— Robert Delaunay

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

— Richard M. Nixon

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

— John Gray

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

— Juliana Hatfield