Listen

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
He listened to me, smiling, but with that condescending and paternal solicitude for having me at his service.

Les Boulevards de Ceinture
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Siddhartha
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
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