Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Listen if you want to be heard

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence, in absolute peace, with no resistance. One has to be vulnerable to listen, and one has to be in deep love to listen. One has to be in utter surrender to listen.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of some very magical words. It's a gift when someone can listen and be quiet and not interrupt.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

Listen more often than you speak.